Link_to popup

Rails
1

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

2

*link_to “GOOGLE”, “http://www.google.com”, **:class *=> “_blank”

3

:target => ‘_blank’ will do this.

Walter

4

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

5

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

*link_to “GOOGLE”, “http://www.google.com”, **:class *=> “_blank”

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

6

Should we use javascript ot jquery to achieve this?

7

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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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:55 PM, avinash behera
[email protected]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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On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:55 PM, avinash behera
[email protected] 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;”)

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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