title: Opening new tab using a link with querystring variable?
body: <p>First of all, I am entirely new to web development, so I apologize in advance if this question is overly simple (although I did do the prerequisite googling before I posted).</p>
  
  <p>The problem I am having is that I would like to open a new tab via a link button or link on my page. I need to append a query string variable from the page onto the end of the reference, because it is passing a parameter to a report. </p>
  
  <p>I've successfully passed the parameter and opened the report in the same tab using this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>protected void lbSummary_OnClick(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
      {
          Response.Redirect("http://myreportserverURL&amp;rs:Command=Render&amp;Year="+YearID);
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I've successfully opened the report in a new tab without passing the parameter with this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://myreportserverURL" target="_blank" class="menu"&gt;Report Name&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would prefer to do both. One important note is that opening a new window, instead of a new tab, is not what I need. I do understand that this is somewhat dependant on browser use, but for this project I can assume that users will be on IE8.</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>