Can vue-router open a link in a new tab?

It seems like this is now possible in newer versions (Vue Router 3.0.1):

<router-link :to="{ name: 'fooRoute'}" target="_blank">
  Link Text
</router-link>

For those who are wondering the answer is no. See related issue on github.

Q: Can vue-router open link in new tab progammaticaly

A: No. use a normal link.

In case that you define your route like the one asked in the question (path: '/link/to/page'):

import Vue from 'vue'
import Router from 'vue-router'
import MyComponent from '@/components/MyComponent.vue';

Vue.use(Router)

export default new Router({
  routes: [
    {
      path: '/link/to/page',
      component: MyComponent
    }
  ]
})

You can resolve the URL in your summary page and open your sub page as below:

<script>
export default {
  methods: {
    popup() {
      let route = this.$router.resolve({path: '/link/to/page'});
      // let route = this.$router.resolve('/link/to/page'); // This also works.
      window.open(route.href, '_blank');
    }
  }
};
</script>

Of course if you've given your route a name, you can resolve the URL by name:

routes: [
  {
    path: '/link/to/page',
    component: MyComponent,
    name: 'subPage'
  }
]

...

let route = this.$router.resolve({name: 'subPage'});

References:

• vue-router router.resolve(location, current?, append?)
• vue-router router-link

Somewhere in your project, typically main.js or router.js

import Router from 'vue-router'

Router.prototype.open = function (routeObject) {
  const {href} = this.resolve(routeObject)
  window.open(href, '_blank')
}

In your component:

<div @click="$router.open({name: 'User', params: {ID: 123}})">Open in new tab</div>

This worked for me-

let routeData = this.$router.resolve(
{
  path: '/resources/c-m-communities', 
  query: {'dataParameter': 'parameterValue'}
});
window.open(routeData.href, '_blank');

I modified @Rafael_Andrs_Cspedes_Basterio answer

Just write this code in your routing file :

{
  name: 'Google',
  path: '/google',
  beforeEnter() {                    
                window.open("http://www.google.com", 
                '_blank');
            }
}

I think the best way is to simply use:

window.open("yourURL", '_blank');

If you are interested ONLY on relative paths like: /dashboard, /about etc, See other answers.

If you want to open an absolute path like: https://www.google.com to a new tab, you have to know that Vue Router is NOT meant to handle those.

However, they seems to consider that as a feature-request. #1280. But until they do that,

Here is a little trick you can do to handle external links with vue-router.

• Go to the router configuration (probably router.js) and add this code:

/* Vue Router is not meant to handle absolute urls. */
/* So whenever we want to deal with those, we can use this.$router.absUrl(url) */
Router.prototype.absUrl = function(url, newTab = true) {
  const link = document.createElement('a')
  link.href = url
  link.target = newTab ? '_blank' : ''
  if (newTab) link.rel = 'noopener noreferrer' // IMPORTANT to add this
  link.click()
}

Now, whenever we deal with absolute URLs we have a solution. For example to open google to a new tab

this.$router.absUrl('https://www.google.com)

Remember that whenever we open another page to a new tab we MUST use noopener noreferrer.

Read more here

or Here

The simplest way of doing this using an anchor tag would be this:

<a :href="$router.resolve({name: 'posts.show', params: {post: post.id}}).href" target="_blank">
    Open Post in new tab
</a>

Below code is to open a new tab with parameter.

With router link=

<router-link
                  :to="{ name: 'task_section',query: {reportId: item.task,}}"
                  target="_blank"> Link Text
              </router-link>

Now access to the sented data

this.$route.query.reportId

It can be achieved by creating a separate method for window redirect like this.

const openLinkInNewTab = (url) => {
  window.open(url, '_blank');
}

then use it on template like this

<a href="javascript:void(0)" @click="openLinkInNewTab('https://devsbuddy.com')">
    Open in new tab
</a>

you can use it in vue3 & typescript

import { useRouter } from "vue-router";
const router = useRouter();
let route = router.resolve({ name:'/link/to/page' , query: { param: 'param1' } });
window.open(route.fullPath, "_blank");

This works for me:

In HTML template: <a target="_blank" :href="url" @click.stop>your_name</a>

In mounted(): this.url = `${window.location.origin}/your_page_name`;

If you use Quasar, there is openURL function:

import { openURL } from 'quasar'

openURL(
  'http://...',
  undefined,
  {
    target: '_blank'
  }
)

Docs:

1. https://quasar.dev/quasar-utils/other-utils/#openurl
2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open#target

use following code for apache server

<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
  Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
</IfModule>