# How to avoid duplicating tabs with openURL?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-avoid-duplicating-tabs-with-openurl/2428>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 15, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-avoid-duplicating-tabs-with-openurl/2428 "2010-12-15T16:24:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex.ferrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@alex.ferrell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex.ferrell)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-avoid-duplicating-tabs-with-openurl/2428/1 "2010-12-15T16:24:57Z")

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I have an openURL call and every time I press it IE8 opens a new tab to open the page. Is there any way to specify the URL to avoid this? Maybe just have IE show the tab that already has that page, or force IE to just have one tab so it always overwrites?

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-avoid-duplicating-tabs-with-openurl/2428/2 "2010-12-17T22:30:40Z")

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I’m not entirely sure, but I don’t think there is anything you can do unless IE itself has some sort of setting for opening a new page in a new or existing tab.