link_to popup

[Avi]

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

[Alex Mercer]

link_to "GOOGLE", "http://www.google.com", :class => "_blank"

[Walter Lee Davis]

:target => '_blank' will do this.

Walter

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[Avi]

On Saturday, December 8, 2012 7:32:39 PM UTC+5:30, Alex Mercer wrote:

link_to "GOOGLE", "http://www.google.com", :class => "_blank"

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

[Avi]

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

[Walter Lee Davis]

On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Avi wrote:

> :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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[avinash behera]

Should we use javascript ot jquery to achieve this?

[Jim Ruther Nill]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:55 PM, avinash behera <aavinas...@gmail.com> wrote:

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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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

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[Walter Lee Davis]

On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:55 PM, avinash behera wrote:

> 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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[Jordon Bedwell]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:55 PM, avinash behera
<aavinas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should we use javascript ot jquery to achieve this?

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;")