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Posted by Nikhil Deorkar
Nikhil Deorkar
Courses Plus Student 1,695 Points

Workspaces In New Tab

How are you able to open Workspaces in a new tab in the Chrome browser instead of a whole different window? In many courses, including JavaScript Basics and How to Make a Website, they were able to do this.

2 Answers

karis hutcheson
karis hutcheson
7,036 Points
karis hutcheson
karis hutcheson
7,036 Points

I got it to open in a new tab by opening the "Workspaces" link in the sidebar in a new tab and, then, opening my desired Workspace in a new tab from that screen.

Because of how the object is set up on the video player screen, it doesn't allow for Chrome to recognize the button as a hyperlink, just a function call. At least, that's what it seems like to me.

Nikhil Deorkar
Nikhil Deorkar
Courses Plus Student 1,695 Points

Thanks karis, that helped.

karis hutcheson
karis hutcheson
7,036 Points

No prob! Can you give me an upvote or mark as "best answer"? So that it counts toward my profile stuff :)

Kheyra Santos
Kheyra Santos
14,705 Points

How do I give you a thumbs up? Cuz that worked :)

Darryl Lingle
Darryl Lingle
282 Points
Darryl Lingle
Darryl Lingle
282 Points

I had the same problem with Chrome on a Mac in the HTML-CSS course...Here may be another way for any others with the same problem... When clicking on the Launch Workspace button on the video, it would open a separate window (unlike what is shown in the video). When I clicked the Preview Workspace it would open a new tab in the original browser window and display the code. I found arranging the two windows by resizing and having the workspace window on my left and other window with video and the new tab displaying the code on my right that I could view the code while seeing the changes displayed in the alternate window. I do have to save the changes in workspace, and the refresh the tab displaying the code to see the changes.