[RESOLVED] how to mimic href with target in javascript

[sneakyimp]

i'm back again with more tedious questions.

I want to mimic the action of an <a> tag which clicked in Javascript. While this may sound simple, I need my javascript function to take two arguments: href and target. I also need it to handle targets like 'blank' or 'self' or whatever else you can supply as a target.

I'm hoping someone has already written this and I can just steal it. Any friendly folks out there who can help me out?

[rulian]

simple combination of either window.open and window.location.href
make a function that reads your arguments and does the appropriate function.

[rulian]

if I'm not mistaken you can also reference windows by their names and use their location properties. like
windows.mynewwin.location.href='myfile.html'

[sneakyimp]

I posted this other forum and got this solution which works great:

function fakeALink(hrf, tgt) {
  if ((tgt == "") || (tgt == "_self")) {
        window.location.href = hrf;
        return;
    } else {
        window.open(hrf, tgt);
        return;
    }
}