In this article, you’ll learn how to open a URL in the same window or same tab using javascript. In HTML, we used the anchor tag to open URLs in a new tab in an elementary and straightforward manner. Sometimes, we need to do the same things using Javascript. In this case, you can use the window.open() method which proves to be helpful.
The window.open() method is used to open a self window depending on the browser setting and the parameter values. You can use _self value in the second parameter of the window.open() method to open the URL in the same tab or in the same window using JavaScript.
Here is an example to open a URL in the same tab using Javascript.
window.open("https://www.tutorialsrack.com", "_self");
I hope this article will help you to understand how to open a URL in the same window or same tab using javascript.
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