Question

For some browsers (and depending on settings), links with target = “_blank” seems to open in the foreground, but for a lot of others it seems to open in the background.

In my case opening in the foreground is what a user intends when she/he clicks on the link, so it would be nice if there is a way to ensure that. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.

Answer 1

You can try using window.focus() to bring the new window to the front. You may do it on the opened document, using jquery, with:

$(function() {
    window.focus();
});

or from the original document:

var newWindow = window.open(url);
window.setTimeout(function() { newWindow.focus(); }, 1000);

The setTimeout is needed to allow time for the window to be actually created by the browser. There may be a cleaner method to achieve this, but the setTimeout should do it.