Open menuItem in new Window or new Tab

[m96117]

The project I'm working with is using the following richfaces components:

<rich:toolBar>

   <rich:dropDownMenu>

      <rich:menuItem ... />

      <rich:menuItem ... />

      <rich:menuItem ... />

   </rich:dropDownMenu>

</rich:toolBar>

The menu works just fine and the menuItems are (left-) clickable and opens up the correct action when clicked upon.

However we must provide the possibility for the user to open the actions in either a new window or a new tab

(as with hyperlinks in a web-page) when the user right-clicks on a menuItem.

The default behavior of this menu component seems to be no pop-up menu or nothing what so ever when right-clicking on a menuItem.

Does anyone know how to achieve the normal browser behavior of right clicking and then choose to open in a new window or new tab?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

use

<menuItem submitMode = "none">
     <h:outputLink value="http://foo.com"/>
</menuItem>

for such items.

the standard link generated will provide the functionality you need.

[apalmeira]

Hello,

I'm using richfaces 4.1, and the rich:menuItem doesn´t have the submitMode atribute.

How can I open in a new window using rich:menuItem in richfaces 4.1?

Tks

[apalmeira]

I solved this way:

<h:link target="_blank" outcome="flp">

   <rich:menuItem label="Follow-Up"/>

</h:link>