link_to popup

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello All,

I have a link. Which I want to open as a new window :-

<%= link_to “Google”, “https://www.google.com”, :popup => [‘new_window_name’,‘toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes’] %>

But it is opening in the same page…

Any suggestions how to do it ??

Even hover will be fine…

Thanks,

Avi

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**link_to "GOOGLE", "http://www.google.com",** **:class** **=>** **"_blank"**
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:target => '_blank' will do this.

Walter

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**link_to "GOOGLE", "[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)",** **:class** **=>** **"_blank"**

I tried with **:class** => **“_blank”. ** It seems to be opening in the same page.

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:target => ‘_blank’ . It is opening in a different tab in the same browser.

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:target => '_blank' . It is opening in a different tab in the same browser.

That's an implementation detail of your browser. The target="_blank" bit is baked into every browser back to Netscape 2. How that browser chooses to implement the window (or tab) is its concern, not something you can change.

Walter

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Should we use javascript ot jquery to achieve this?

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Should we use javascript ot jquery to achieve this?

I remember in rails 2 that link_to has a popup option which opens a new window. Looking at the api right now, the option was removed. so I guess you may need to implement your own js solution

http://apidock.com/rails/v2.3.8/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper/link_to

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Should we use javascript ot jquery to achieve this?

I just tried this in Safari, and both window.open and target="_blank" both open in a new tab. There doesn't seem to be a way to override the browser preference here (and I consider that to be a good thing, BTW).

What does seem to work to force a different window altogether is to set the window preferences in JavaScript to a defined size. Compare the second and the third links on this page. The second (like the first) opens a new tab. The third opens a little daughter window, separate from the main browser. I haven't fiddled with it that much to figure out what the least-common-denominator thing you can do to force the window, but you should be able to find a lot of references to this -- it's definitely old-school.

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/window.html

You might also want to think about using a "lightwindow" or similar instead of a new window. New windows have lots of other UX issues.

Walter

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link_to(:link, :title => "Link Title", :onclick => "javascript:(function(ele) { window.open(ele.href, ele.title, 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes') })(this); return false;")