Question

In my application I have some link buttons there but when I right click on them I cannot (they are in disable mode) find the menu items Open in new tab or Open in new window.

How do I show those menu items?

Code example:

<asp:LinkButton id="lbnkVidTtile1" runat="Server" CssClass="bodytext" Text='<%#Eval("newvideotitle") %>'  />

Answer 1

From the docs:

Use the LinkButton control to create a hyperlink-style button on the Web page. The LinkButton control has the same appearance as a HyperLink control, but has the same functionality as a Button control. If you want to link to another Web page when the control is clicked, consider using the HyperLink control.

As this isn’t actually performing a link in the standard sense, there’s no Target property on the control (the HyperLink control does have a Target) – it’s attempting to perform a PostBack to the server from a text link.

Depending on what you are trying to do you could either:

1. Use a HyperLink control, and set the Target property
2. Provide a method to the OnClientClick property that opens a new window to the correct place.
3. In your code that handles the PostBack add some JavaScript to fire on PageLoad that will open a new window correct place.