Open link in new tab is opening blank page

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I have designed menu using

HTML

<ul> and <li>

tags and handled onserverclick event, where redirection code is written. This code works fine for normal click. But when I right click on the link and select "Open link in new tab", it opens blank page. So how can I handle this scenario. Any kind of help will nice. Thanks in advance.

Following is the sample code,

XML

<ul class="rounded-corners ">                                                                                <li name="menuSample"><a onserverclick="lnk_clicked" runat="server" href="~/Sample.aspx"                                                                                     title="Sample">Sample</a></li>
</ul>

Server side code:

C#

protected void lnk_clicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           strPage = (sender as System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor).Title.ToString();
           Response.Redirect((sender as System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor).HRef);
       }

Posted 10-Jul-14 1:33am

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Updated 10-Jul-14 3:18am

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CHill60 10-Jul-14 7:38am

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kishore@cse · Answer 1 · 2014-07-10T06:23:00

Solution 3

By clicking on your ul element "~/Sample.aspx" has to open in newtab

If you want above functionality no need use the javascript function aslo try below code

HTML

<ul class="rounded-corners">
<li name="menuSample">
  <a href="~/Sample.aspx" target="_blank">Sample<a>
</li>
<ul>

Posted 10-Jul-14 6:23am

kishore@cse

SRS(The Coder) · Answer 2 · 2014-07-10T03:38:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Not sure why are you again are you handling the server click event here(also are you sure there is an attribute named 'onserverclick' i m not thinking so), because simply setting the 'href' attribute value should work for the anchor tags.

Please remove handler being added as [onserverclick="lnk_clicked"].

Else if it is not working you can try with adding below attribute value like

HTML

target="_blank"

Hope this will be of help.

Posted 10-Jul-14 3:38am

SRS(The Coder)

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Member 10937454 10-Jul-14 9:53am

Hi thanks for reply. actually onserverclick is present and is working. I am using it because, it has more code regarding permissions and all and I need to handle that before redirecting.

Member 10937454 10-Jul-14 10:01am

Also target="_blank" isn't working.

saeed rajabi · Answer 3 · 2014-07-10T03:43:00

Solution 2

see more here w3schools

Posted 10-Jul-14 3:43am

saeed rajabi

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