Target = _blank not working

[David Penny]

Why does the following not open the webpage in a new window, as expected?

<telerik:RadButton ID="RadButton15" runat="server"
    PostBackUrl="~/CostDashboard.aspx" Skin="Default" Target="_blank"
    Text="Costing" Visible="True" Width="200px" ButtonType="LinkButton">
</telerik:RadButton>

David Penny

[Shinu]

Hello David,

I could run your code and was able to get the webpage loaded in a new window. I did try it on FF, Chrome & IE versions, and this was working as expected. Can you get me the exact scenario, so that I could find out more? Which browser are you using?

Regards,
Shinu.

[David Penny]

Hi Shinu,

I'm running it from Visual Studio, and the browser is IE8. Strange, because I expected it to work as well.

I'll go back and take another look. Might be something else is off somewhere.

Dave

[Slav]

Hi David,

Note that setting the PostBackUrl property of RadButton will result in a post to the specified page. If you want to use the button control as a link in order to open a page in a new window/tab, you should set the NavigateUrl property with the path to the page that should be displayed, as shown below:

<telerik:RadButton ID="RadButton15" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/CostDashboard.aspx"
    Skin="Default" Target="_blank" Text="Costing" Visible="True" Width="200px" ButtonType="LinkButton">
</telerik:RadButton>

I hope this helps. Please let us know if you run into more difficulties.

Kind regards,
Slav
the Telerik team