How to set target=_blank in React

Set target to _blank in React #

To set the target prop of an element to _blank in React, use an anchor element and set the rel prop, e.g. <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">. The _blank value means that the resource is loaded into a new tab.

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export default function App() {
  const openInNewTab = url => {
    // 👇️ setting target to _blank with window.open
    window.open(url, '_blank', 'noopener,noreferrer');
  };

  return (
    <div>
      {/* 👇️ setting target to _blank on a link */}
      <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
        Example.com
      </a>

      <hr />

      <button onClick={() => openInNewTab('https://example.com')}>
        Example.com
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Notice that we have to set the rel prop to noopener noreferrer when setting target to _blank.

The noopener keyword for the rel attribute instructs the browser to navigate to the target resource without granting the new browsing context access to the document that opened it.

When the target prop of the a element is set to _blank, the resource is loaded into a new tab.

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<a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
  Example.com
</a>

Alternatively, you can set target to _blank when using the window.open() function.

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export default function App() {
  const openInNewTab = url => {
    // 👇️ setting target to _blank with window.open
    window.open(url, '_blank', 'noopener,noreferrer');
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={() => openInNewTab('https://example.com')}>
        Example.com
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

The open() method on the window object loads the specified resource into a new or existing tab.

We passed the following 3 parameters to the open() method:

When the user clicks on the button, the function we passed to the onClick prop will get invoked and the specified page will get loaded in a new tab.

By setting target to _blank, we open the resource in a new tab.