Is there a way to force open anchor tags in the default browser instead of the tauri window | Tauri Apps | Page 1

sturdy forge Feb 9, 2023, 4:03 PM

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I have code that is written by others in my app and I want links of anchor tags in this code to be opened in the system default browser, not in the tauri window. One approach I tried is injecting javascript that listens for click events and then checks whether it's an anchor tag and the href starts with http and if so, invoke a command to the rust backend to open the link in the system browser (after sanitizing it). However this approach does not seem to work with anchor tags inside shadow DOM's.

sturdy forge Feb 9, 2023, 6:54 PM

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In case someone else has the same issue, I converged to this solution that so far seems to do what I want. I added the following code as an initialization_script when creating the window:

window.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
    const maybeHref = e.composedPath()[0].href;
    if (maybeHref) {
      // alert(`Got composed path with href: ${maybeHref}`);
      if ( (maybeHref.startsWith('http://') || maybeHref.startsWith('https://')) && !(maybeHref.includes("tauri.localhost")) ) {
        e.preventDefault();
        window.__TAURI_INVOKE__('open_url_cmd', { 'url': maybeHref } )
      }
    }
  });

wanton thistle Mar 14, 2023, 4:17 PM

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if I understand correctly you are opening a default browser to show something? have you been able to return something from the browser to the tauri app? like a auth access token I am trying to get by opening the default browser?

#Is there a way to force open anchor tags in the default browser instead of the tauri window