Applies to HTML Viewer, IE Browser publications.
Hyperlinks may have a target. HTML Executable provides you with some pre-defined targets that you can use in your publications.
Syntax:
<a target="[target]" href="[destination URL]">Your link</a>
List of predefined targets:
- _blank: this target in IE Browser publications create a popup window (to avoid this behavior, check out the NoAutomaticPopup property). However HTML Viewer publications won't open a new window but it will display the page in the main window except if the link is an external link, i.e. http://, ftp://, etc... In fact, for security reasons, you cannot access to compiled pages outside of a publication. If you want to open a compiled page in a new window, then use _henewinstance.
- _hepopup_[name]: opens a new popup window whose name is set to [name] (no space, alphanumeric characters only for [name]).
- _heexternal: forces the publication to open the destination URL in the default web browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox for instance).
- _henewinstance: opens a new stand-alone instance of the publication that will display the specified URL.
- _heopenit: extracts the file specified by [destination URL] (it must be the virtual path starting from the root without the protocol: MyPath\MyFile.ext) and runs the associated program to open this file. The file is then deleted when the publication is closed.
- _hemain: opens the destination in the main window.
Example: this will start a new instance and display "index.htm":
<a target="_henewinstance" href="index.htm">My link</a>
_heopenit can be used for any document file like executable program files, text files, Microsoft Office® files, etc...