idea Support HTML target attribute in web map popups in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Support HTML target attribute in web map popups

Greg_Yetman — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:48:08 GMT

When configuring a web map popup, the interface allows access to the HTML tags. When creating a link from the popup, the default href target is "_blank"; changing the target to "_self" (or any other valid target) is ignored by ArcGIS Online--the resulting web map popup only supports "_blank".

It would be great if changes made to the target attribute are respected by ArcGIS Online.

Re: Support HTML target attribute in web map popups

Greg_Yetman — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:43:34 GMT

I did find a workaround using the JavaScript API and an InfoWindow. The InfoWindow will not replace the _self or _parent attributes with _blank. Note that the popup window in the JavaScript API will replace the attributes.

Re: Support HTML target attribute in web map popups

StephenKilburn — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:51:31 GMT

In my opinion, this is important if a web map is to be embedding in a site. The current behaviour may make sense for a map-centric site, but if the map is intended to add value to a site, rather than be central, it is not ideal. For instance, I was asked to produce a web map to embed in a site that has information about a planning proposal. The site has text and images on various elements of the proposal. The map locates those elements. What I wanted was for the popups to link to anchors within site sub-pages so that if the popup is clicked through the browser jumps away from the map to the detailed descriptive text. Opening the content in new tabs instead (_blank) is clunky. I hope the workaround posted works, but this seems easy enough to support in HTML that we shouldn't be forced to use a workaround.

Re: Support HTML target attribute in web map popups

MappyIan — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:29:31 GMT

I fully support this idea.

We configured a map in Map Viewer with a a popup which includes a hyperlink. If I look at the source of the popup, the system has automatically added the attributes: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer".

Now, for accessibility reasons it's better to have links open in the same window, so I changed target="_blank" to target="_self". But when I do this, the target of the hyperlink specified by the href attribute is stripped from the popups source automatically and leaves the link as: <a target="_self">, which goes nowhere as there is no href attribute.

If I remove the target="_blank" attribute, it just comes back, it's not possible to remove it.

To me this is a bug as changing the target from "_blank" to "_self" deletes the href.

Re: Support HTML target attribute in web map popups

AndresCastillo — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:51:32 GMT

There is a post by @rdbutger where he shows he used Arcade in the web map popup to bypass this automatic behavior.

Here is my sample code:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/arcgis-online-popup-appending-rel-quot-noopener/m-p/1571741/highlight/true#M62960

This allows me to change the page in-place, instead of opening a new tab.

var baseurl = 'https://www.something.com/route/' var code = Lower($feature.ColumnName) var train_stations_public_page = Concatenate([baseurl,code]) Console(train_stations_public_page) var train_stations_public_page_link = '<strong><a style="color:#01507b;text-decoration: underline;cursor:pointer" target="_self" href="' + train_stations_public_page + '">Station Details</a></strong>' Console(train_stations_public_page_link) return { type : 'text', text : train_stations_public_page_link }