Can I open a navbar link in a new tab?

[giabaio]

This is probably a question with a very simple answer, but can I enforce a navbar item to link to an external URL that opens in a new tab?

In other words, I'd like to have

...
navabar: 
   right: 
      - text: "Some text here"
        href: SOME_URL
...

and when the user clicks on the hyperlink under Some text here they are taken to SOME_URL in a new tab.

I don't think you can use markdown or pure html here, to say something like

   - text=<a href="SOME_URL" target="_blank">Some text here</a>

can you?

Similarly, *without fiddling with the resulting html file (ie from the _quarto.yml directly), can I force - icon to use non bootstrap icons (and use instead, say, fontawesome)?

I know the answer to both is probably "just replace the text in the resulting html, which I can do, but I wondered whether there's something more clever than that?

Thanks!

[giabaio]

I think I saw that adding link-external-newwindow: true in my _quarto.yml does the trick for most external links, but not for those in the navbar... Am I missing an obvious fix?
Thanks

[effigies]

I think the issue is probably that navbar links are explicitly excluded from the find-and-replace here:

quarto-cli/src/resources/formats/html/templates/quarto-html.ejs

Lines 388 to 389 in 8c2b10d

	// Inspect non-navigation links and adorn them if external
	var links = window.document.querySelectorAll('a:not(.nav-link):not(.navbar-brand):not(.toc-action):not(.sidebar-link):not(.sidebar-item-toggle):not(.pagination-link):not(.no-external):not([aria-hidden]):not(.dropdown-item)');

My guess is the assumption when this was written was that these were always internal links, but that no longer applies. So the fix might be as easy as removing the not(.nav-link) from that line.

[giabaio]

Thanks --- I think that works! (tested on a local quarto-cli installation, based on the latest release from the GitHub repo). Perhaps I should send a pull request?

[effigies]

That's what I would do.

[giabaio]

Done!

[aborruso]

Hi what is the PR? Has it been approved and is there any quarto release that contains it?

Thank you

[dragonstyle]

#3542

It is in 1.3 pre-release and allows Navbar items to include a target option.

[aborruso]

It is in 1.3 pre-release and allows Navbar items to include a target option.

Thank you @dragonstyle

I'm using quarto-1.3.220-linux-amd64.deb here, for some sidebar menu here, but I have not target blank.
Does it work for side menu?

The config file.