Open router link in a new tab in Vue
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This is a short article on how to open router-link in a new tab or, a new browser window in VueJS.
In Vue, to navigate between different pages we use the <router-link> component with its to="" attribute.
Example
<router-link to="/about">About</router-link>
This code will take us from a specific page to the /about page within the same browser tab.
Open Link in a New Tab
However, if we want to open the /about page in a new tab, then we have to add a target attribute with _blank as a value in our <router-link> component.
<router-link to="/about" target="_blank">About</router-link>
Programatically, we can navigate a page and open it in a new tab using the $router instance.
Example:
<template>
<div id="app">
<button @click="aboutPage()">About</button>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
methods: {
aboutPage() {
let route = this.$router.resolve({ path: "/about" });
window.open(route.href);
},
},
};
</script>
In the above code, we have used this.$router.resolve() and window.open() method.
The resolve() method returns the normalized version of the route location. It includes a href property that we can use with the window.open() method to open the page in a new tab of the browser.
Open External Link in a New Tab In Vue
In VueJs, to open an external link in a new tab, we can use the HTML anchor tag <a> and then pass the target attribute and set the value to _black.
<template>
<div id="app">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
</div>
</template>
In Vue, we can also open the external link in a new tab using programmatic navigation like this:
<template>
<div id="app">
<button @click="gotoWiki()">Go To Wikipedia</button>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
methods: {
gotoWiki() {
window.open("https://en.wikipedia.org/", "_blank");
},
},
};
</script>
Related Topics:
Set URL Query Params In Vue Using Vue-Router
