Link Button : "right click and open in new tab" not working

Question

I am trying to right click on a LinkButton and open it in a new tab or seperate window page displays nothing. I found some solution for the use of Hyperlink button as it has property to set target to "_blank" but LinkButton has not any target attribue.

I want to use LinkButton instead of hyperlink button, its just because i can't set command arguement or command name on hyperlink button and can't fire an event on it.

<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkHeadingHindi" Text='<%#Patrika.Common.ConvertNews(Eval("strMainHeadingHin").ToString())%>' CommandArgument='<%#Eval("intNewsId") %>' runat="server"></asp:LinkButton>

It would be great if anybody has a solution and let me know in case of any concern.

Thanks !!

Try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3807581/open-page-in-new-window-when-a-link-button-is-clicked — Aishwarya Shiva, Mar 06 '13 at 10:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

Based on the accepted answer to this question, if you want to perform a POST (such as a LinkButton does) but have the result open in a new window, you need to add target="_blank" to the form on the page, not the link itself.

Obviously you don't want to do this when you initially render the page, as everything that caused a postback would open in a new window.

Instead, try adding the following attribute to your LinkButton:

OnClientClick="$('form').attr('target', 'blank')"

This will dynamically set the form attribute just before the form is posted back by a click to the link.

Note that this doesn't give the right-click functionality you want, but it does work to open in a new window on a left-click.

If you don't have access to JQuery, you'll need to do something like

protected void Page_PreRender(object se, EventArgs e)
{
    this.Page.Form.ID = "someUniqueID"; // unless your form already has an ID
    yourLinkButton.OnClientClick =
        "document.getElementById('" +
        this.Page.Form.ClientID +
        "').setAttribute('target', '_blank')";
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '13 at 07:58

From the docs

Use the LinkButton control to create a hyperlink-style button on the Web page. The LinkButton control has the same appearance as a HyperLink control, but has the same functionality as a Button control. If you want to link to another Web page when the control is clicked, consider using the HyperLink control.

As this isn't actually performing a link in the standard sense, there's no Target property on the control (the HyperLink control does have a Target) - it's attempting to perform a PostBack to the server from a text link.

Depending on what you are trying to do you could either:

1) Use a HyperLink control, and set the Target property

2) Provide a method to the OnClientClick property that opens a new window to the correct place.

3) In your code that handles the PostBack add some JavaScript to fire on PageLoad that will open a new window correct place.

If you like when click the link button,then open new window,

please see this

forum is not helpful for me..and even hyperlink control doesn't fire any event..so how can i use hyperlink instead of linkbutton? — Vedank Kulshrestha, Mar 06 '13 at 08:45

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '13 at 08:06

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insert base tag like this

 <head>
    <base target="_blank" />
    </head>

answered Mar 06 '13 at 08:06

Nikhil D

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This doesn't work (for me at least) - the reference on the rendered anchor is `javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$FeaturedContent$ctl00','')` so you end up trying to call a function in the new window that doesn't exist. – Rawling Mar 06 '13 at 08:32

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 06 '13 at 08:09

If you want to pass some information to the page using hyperlink, pass it in the url using QueryString.

<asp:HyperLink id="hyperlink1" 
                  NavigateUrl="~/MyPage.aspx?intNewsId=10"
                  Text="ClickMe"
                  Target="_blank"
                  runat="server"/>

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 06 '13 at 08:13

You can't have it both ways, you'll have to choose between:

1) the linkbutton executing some code in the current page

2) a hyperlink opening another page in a new window

I guess you want to have the linkbutton executing some code in the new page, but that's impossible.

or if u like use . anger tag

Just render an anchor with href set to appropriate url and set the target attribute to _blank it will open the url into new window

<a href="urlOfThePage" target="_blank" >Click me</a>

Link Button : "right click and open in new tab" not working

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