Coding the "target" attribute on a "link_to"

[belfasthenry]

Within my template I'm coding

%= link_to "/view/$view_link" => begin
  %= image $img->{src}, class => 'dirlist', alt => $img->{alt}
% end

And it's working fine, generating an anchor tag along these lines:

<a href="view/foo/bar/somename.jpg">
  <img alt="DSCI0163.jpg" class="dirlist" src="/foo/thumbnail.jpg">
</a>

I want the link to open in a separate tab, which I'd normally do by putting target="_blank" in the anchor tag, but I can't find a way of doing it with the link_to helper. Along the lines of the link_to documentation in Mojolicious::Plugin::Taghelpers I've tried

%= link_to "/view/$view_link" => {target=>"_blank"} => begin
  %= image $img->{src}, class => 'dirlist', alt => $img->{alt}
% end

And the same with parens round the target=> part rather than braces, but both are ignored. I've looked at the url_for sub in /usr/share/perl5/Mojolicious/Controller.pm and also in the source of Mojo::URL but either it's not there or I can't pick it out of the code.

Can I do this, and if so how? If not, what?

[kraih]

There is no magic, target is just another attribute. Just like class, id or alt.

[belfasthenry]

Thank you. I have coded %= link_to "/view/$view_link" => (target => "_blank") => begin, which is what I thought I had coded earlier (as described in my initial post) but I must have been mistaken because it now does what I want.

Oddly, "View page source" in Firefox (Ctrl-U) still isn't showing the target= attribute on the link; that was throwing me off the scent. The "Inspect element" tool shows it correctly. Some cache issue, probably.