I'm doing a Chrome extension and I got helped in this post here.
My problem now is how to open a new tab of chrome that has as URL the link I clicked in the popup.html
. I tried to do like someone suggested in their answers in other similar question like setting <a>
's attribute target
to _blank
but the only result is that chrome does open a new tab but in the new tab is my popup.html.
Any idea how to solve this?
Thanks.
You should use chrome.tabs module to manually open the desired link in a new tab. Try using this jQuery snippet in your popup.html:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('body').on('click', 'a', function(){
chrome.tabs.create({url: $(this).attr('href')});
return false;
});
});
See my comment https://stackoverflow.com/a/17732609/1340178
I had the same issue and this was my approach:
- Create the popup.html with link (and the links are not working when clicked as Chrome block them).
- Create popup.js and link it in the page:
<script src="popup.js" ></script>
Add the following code to popup.js:
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
(function () {
var ln = links[i];
var location = ln.href;
ln.onclick = function () {
chrome.tabs.create({active: true, url: location});
};
})();
}
});
That's all, links should work after that.
If you don't want to use JQuery, insert this into your popup.js and it will make all your links open in a new tab when clicked
Remember to declarer the "tabs" permission in the manifest.json
window.addEventListener('click',function(e){
if(e.target.href!==undefined){
chrome.tabs.create({url:e.target.href})
}
})
The other answers work. For completeness, another way is to just add target="_blank"
Or if you have want to "manually" add particular links, here's a way (based on the other answers already here):
popup.html
<a id="index_link">My text</a>.
popup.js
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
var y = document.getElementById("index_link");
y.addEventListener("click", openIndex);
}
function openIndex() {
chrome.tabs.create({active: true, url: "http://my_url"});
}
I had the same problem. Looked like Konrad's solution would worked, but it opened multiple tabs at once. This happened only after first extension install. So I changed it to
if (e.target.classList.contains("a-link")) {
chrome.tabs.create({url: $(e.target).attr('href')});
return false;
}
and all is working as expected.