Javascript - Open a given URL in a new tab by clicking a button

I would like to have a button that redirects to a given URL and opens in a new tab. How can this be done?

Use this:

<input type="button" value="button name" onclick="window.open('http://www.website.com/page')" />

Worked for me and it will open an actual new 'popup' window rather than a new full browser or tab. You can also add variables to it to stop it from showing specific browser traits as follows:

onclick="window.open(this.href,'popUpWindow','height=400,width=600,left=10,top=10,,scrollbars=yes,menubar=no'); return false;"

In javascript you can do:

window.open(url, "_blank");

Adding target="_blank" should do it:

<a id="myLink" href="www.google.com" target="_blank">google</a>

You can forget about using JavaScript because the browser controls whether or not it opens in a new tab. Your best option is to do something like the following instead:

<form action="http://www.yoursite.com/dosomething" method="get" target="_blank">
    <input name="dynamicParam1" type="text"/>
    <input name="dynamicParam2" type="text" />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

This will always open in a new tab regardless of which browser a client uses due to the target="_blank" attribute.

If all you need is to redirect with no dynamic parameters you can use a link with the target="_blank" attribute as Tim Büthe suggests.