Distinguish Anchor Tag Click vs Window.Open

[akjana]

Hi

Both Anchor Tag click when target="_blank" and window.open call into OnBeforePopup. Is there a way to distinguish them ? The callback method "OnBeforePopUp" seems to be the right method.

Other Anchor Tag clicks when target="_self | _top" appear in OnBeforeBrowse as expected but the Request parameter has TransitionType populated as "CliendBackend" when its triggered from JS as opposed to "UserClicked". Would it be possible to add the request parameter to OnBeforePopup ?

Thanks

[Czarek]

What is the value of target_disposition in OnBeforePopup for both scenarios?

[akjana]

Its NewForegroundTab.

Any idea in what scenarios rest of the values get returned ?
Unknown = 0,
SuppressOpen = 1,
CurrentTab = 2,
SingletonTab = 3,
NewForegroundTab = 4,
NewBackgroundTab = 5,
NewPopup = 6,
NewWindow = 7,
SaveToDisk = 8,
OffTheRecord = 9,
IgnoreAction = 10,

[Czarek]

When OnBeforePopup is called for window.open then check popupFeatures argument, maybe it contains some unique values that allow to distinguish the call. Check also target_frame_name arg.

If that doesn't help a workaround could be to overwrite window.open using javascript bindings.

[akjana]

Thanks Czarek for the suggestions, haven't tried them yet. Will try them and get back shortly.

I think target_frame_name arg gets populated only if the caller passes a value in window.open in JS.
And good idea about overwriting window.open. For this, haven't tried it but i assume i'd need to overwrite this for IFrames as well right ? Any way to overwrite it generically so that all IFrames call the updated window.open ?