Confirmation box not working on a link to another tab

Question

heres the code of my link confirmation to another tab:

<a href="linksite" onclick="linktab()" target="_tab">Go to link</a>

 <script type'text/javascript'>
       function linktab()
       {
        return confirm('Are you sure you want to go to the link?');
       };
       </script>

i think the problem is the Target=TAB but i dont know how would i do that without closing the other site for loading purposes.

Answer 1

Instead of onload="linktab()" use onclick="return linktab()

Answer 2

Just remove target='_tab' and in the confirmation you can do

if(confirm('sure?')){var win=window.open(url, '_blank');win.focus();}

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Answer 3

You want to use onclick, not onload.

You also must make sure that your onclick itself returns the value returned from the function:

 onclick="return linktab()"

Otherwise your onclick will just invoke a function, but disregard what it returns.

Demo

Note that valid values for target are*:

• Any string, with the following restrictions:
  • must not start with a "_" character
  • must be at least one character long
• any case-insensitive match for one of the following literal strings: "_blank", "_self", "_parent", or "_top".