Open New Window using h:commandButton

[Varshini Priya]

I need some help on how to open a page in a new Tab on click of the command button. I know I can acheive this using the javascript. But I would like to acheive this using JSF code and not Javascript. Im using JSF2.0. I have already been able to establish this using commandLink by adding target="_blank". But I would like to acheive the same using commandButton. Also is there anyway if we can specify the javascript code in the backend to open the page in a new tab?? please assist.
Thanks in Advance

[Tim Holloway]

The JSF commandButton control does not support the target attribute, unlike the commandLink. What most people do is fake it by decorating a commandLink to look like a button.

None of the popular J2EE servers have JavaScript interpreters built into them, so any JavaScript code would have to run on the client.

[Varshini Priya]

Thanks for the response Tim. I was able to acheive this via the below code . Thought of sharing it, since it might be useful for someone else.

<h:form>
    ...
    <h:commandButton value="Open in new Window" onclick="this.form.target='_blank'" />
</h:form>