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Open Link in a New Window on Double Click

The example demonstrates how to attach an ondblclick (on double click) event handler to the editor content area, check whether the selection is an A tag and if it is to open it in a new window:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function OnClientLoad(editor, args)
    {
        editor.attachEventHandler("ondblclick", function (e)
        {
            var sel = editor.getSelection().getParentElement(); //get the currently selected element
            var href = null;
            if (sel.tagName == "A")
            {
                href = sel.href; //get the href value of the selected link
                window.open(href, null, "height=500,width=500,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no");
                return false;
            }
        }
 );
    }
</script>
<asp:ScriptManager id="ScriptManager1" runat="server"/>
<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor2"
OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad" >
   <Content>
       Sample Content <a href="https://www.telerik.com">Open Telerik.com</a> Sample Content  
   </Content>
</telerik:radeditor> 

We can further enhance the example by programmatically setting a title attribute with "Doubleclick to open the link in a new window" value to all links in the content area. You can do that with the following code:

var link = editor.get_document().getElementsByTagName("A"); //get a reference to the links in the content area of RadEditor
for (var i = 0; i < link.length; i++)
{
    link[i].setAttribute("title", "Double click to open the link in a new window");
}     

Here is the complete solution:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function OnClientLoad(editor, args)
    {
        var link = editor.get_document().getElementsByTagName("A"); //get a reference to the links in the content area of RadEditor
        for (var i = 0; i < link.length; i++)
        {
            link[i].setAttribute("title", "Double click to open the link in a new window");
        }
        editor.attachEventHandler("ondblclick", function (e)
        {
            var sel = editor.getSelection().getParentElement(); //get the currently selected element
            var href = null;
            if (sel.tagName == "A")
            {
                href = sel.href; //get the href value of the selected link
                window.open(href, null, "height=500,width=500,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no");
                return false;
            }
        }
);
    }
</script>
<asp:ScriptManager id="ScriptManager" runat="server"/>
<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1"
OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad" >
  <Content>
       Sample Content <a href="https://www.telerik.com">Open Telerik.com</a> Sample Content  
  </Content>
</telerik:radeditor> 
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