Question

If a user is on your website and opens another link (also to your website) in a new tab, is it possible to differentiate this from the user just clicking on the link normally? This can be in javascript, on the server, whatever.

I’m guessing that the answer is that you cannot do this, but I wanted to double check.

Answer 1

You can sort of do it like this:

if (history.length == 1) {  // Um, needs to be 0 for IE, 1 for Firefox
    // This is a new window or a new tab.
}

There may be other ways for history.length to be 1, but I don’t know what they might be.