I created a pop-up script where, if a user clicks on a specific link, it closes and opens a link to a new tab. What I'm trying to get is to stay in the parent window instead of the recently opened tab.
I googled a lot, but did not find a suitable answer.
The solution should work as follows: 
Here is my code
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Simple JQuery Modal Window from Queness</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { var id = '#dialog'; </script> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family:verdana; font-size:15px; } a {color:#333; text-decoration:none} a:hover {color:#ccc; text-decoration:none} #mask { position:absolute; left:0; top:0; z-index:9000; background-color:#000; display:none; } #boxes .window { position:absolute; left:0; top:0; width:440px; height:200px; display:none; z-index:9999; padding:20px; } #boxes #dialog { width:375px; height:203px; padding:10px; background-color:#ffffff; } </style> </head><body> <div id="boxes"> <div style="top: 199.5px; left: 551.5px; display: none;" id="dialog" class="window"> Simple Modal Window | <a class="close" onClick="window.open('http://google.com','').blur();">Close it</a> </div> <div style="width: 1478px; height: 602px; display: none; opacity: 0.8;" id="mask"></div> </div> </body> </html>
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