Window.open only open url, does not click - click has to be done manually

Question

I'm using window.open and on click, it opens a new window, pre-fills the address bar but does not open the url filled in the address bar (for chrome)

window.open("www.stackoverflow.com","_blank")

Is there something that I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

You're missing the protocol (in your example http or https).

window.open("https://www.stackoverflow.com","_blank")

It's important for the browser to know if you're passing an absolute or relative uri. If it's absolute (like in your case), you have to prepend the protocol.