How to have a a razor action link open in a new ta

Question

I trying to get my link to open in a new tab (it must be in razor format):

    <a href="@Url.Action("RunReport", "Performance", new { reportView = Model.ReportView.ToString() }, new { target = "_blank" })" type="submit" id="runReport" class="button Secondary">@Reports.RunReport</a>

This is not working though. Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

<a href="@Url.Action("RunReport", "Performance", new { reportView = Model.ReportView.ToString() })" type="submit" id="runReport" target="_blank" class="button Secondary"> @Reports.RunReport </a>

Answer 2

If your goal is to use the ActionLink helper and open a new tab:

@Html.ActionLink("New tab please", "Home", null , new { target = "_blank" })

@Html.ActionLink("New tab please", "Home", Nothing, New With {Key .target = "_blank"})

Answer 3

With Named arguments:

@Html.ActionLink(linkText: "TestTab", actionName: "TestAction", controllerName: "TestController", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { target = "_blank"})

Answer 4

You are setting it't type as submit. That means that browser should post your <form> data to the server.

In fact a tag has no type attribute according to w3schools.

So remote type attribute and it should work for you.