link button property to open in new tab?

Question

In my application I have some link buttons there but when I right click on them I cannot (they are in disable mode) find the menu items Open in new tab or

Answer 1

This is not perfect, but it works.

<asp:LinkButton id="lbnkVidTtile1" runat="Server" 
    CssClass="bodytext" Text='<%# Eval("newvideotitle") %>'
    OnClientClick="return PostToNewWindow();"  />

<script type="text/javascript">
function PostToNewWindow()
{
    originalTarget = document.forms[0].target;
    document.forms[0].target='_blank';
    window.setTimeout("document.forms[0].target=originalTarget;",300);
    return true;
}
</script>

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

When the LinkButton Enabled property is false it just renders a standard hyperlink. When you right click any disabled hyperlink you don't get the option to open in anything.

try

lbnkVidTtile1.Enabled = true;

I'm sorry if I misunderstood. Could I just make sure that you understand the purpose of a LinkButton? It is to give the appearance of a HyperLink but the behaviour of a Button. This means that it will have an anchor tag, but there is JavaScript wired up that performs a PostBack to the page. If you want to link to another page then it is recommended here that you use a standard HyperLink control.

Answer 4

 <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" target="_blank">LinkButton</asp:LinkButton>

Use target="_blank" because It creates anchor markup. the following HTML is generated for above code

<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_LinkButton1" target="_blank" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$LinkButton1','')">LinkButton</a>

Answer 5

It throws error.

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'aspnetForm' is undefined

Answer 6

Here is your Tag.

<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server">Open Test Page</asp:LinkButton>

Here is your code on the code behind.

LinkButton1.Attributes.Add("href","../Test.aspx")
LinkButton1.Attributes.Add("target","_blank")

Hope this will be helpful for someone.

Edit To do the same with a link button inside a template field, use the following code.

Use GridView_RowDataBound event to find Link button.

Dim LB as LinkButton = e.Row.FindControl("LinkButton1")         
LB.Attributes.Add("href","../Test.aspx")  
LB.Attributes.Add("target","_blank")