How to open a link on page load using Javascript

Suppose, you have an anchor (<a>) element. You want to open the link in a new tab after loading the page. So that, you don't have to click the link manually.

To click a link after loading the page, you have to use the Javascript's click() method.

Syntex :

document.querySelector('a').click();

To open a link in a new tab, follow the below steps.

1. Create an anchor tag with a class name. So that, we can select the anchor tag by the class name.
   

   <a class="my-anchor" href="https://www.example.com">
    I am an anchor tag.
   </a>

2. Now, select the anchor <a> element using the querySelector() method and add the click() method.
   

   document.querySelector('.my-anchor').click();

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