LWC User Friendly <a> Tag

Why this needed

NavigationMixin is useful on LWC SPA development, but it doesn't handle browser default behaviours in an easy way, such as..

• Open in new tab (command + click, ctrl + click)
• Open in new window (Shift + click)

We also have to set href attribute value in <a> tag to support user right clicking , which value can be fetched by NavigationMixin.GenerateUrl.

This repo packages an example LWC component <c-a-tag> that handles browser default behaviours instead of <a> tag in LWC way. You don't have to use NavigationMixin in your component with this. Just pass a Page Reference object or URL string to href attribute of the component.

Code example

<template>
    <!-- Usecase 1 : Simple anchor -->
    <c-a-tag href={pageRef1}>Link here!</c-a-tag>

    <!-- Usecase 2 : Block style anchor -->
    <c-a-tag href={pageRef2} a-tag-style="display:block;">
        <div>
            <img src="https://example.com/abc123.png"/>
            <p>Hello LWC developers!</p>
        </div>
    </c-a-tag>

    <!-- Usecase 3 : URL String is also available -->
    <c-a-tag href="https://salesforce.com" target="_blank">
        <span>Click here</span>
    </c-a-tag>
<template>

import { LightningElement, track } from "lwc";

export default class ExampleLwc extends LightningElement {

    @track pageRef1;
    @track pageRef2;

    connectedCallback() {
        this.pageRef1 = {
            type: "standard__recordPage",
            attributes: {
                recordId: this.recordId,
                objectApiName: "AnotherCustomObject__c",
                actionName: "view"
            }
        };

        this.pageRef2 = {
            type: 'standard__app',
            attributes: {
                appTarget: 'standard__Sales',
            }
        };
    }

}

• Available in LEX and Experience Cloud (including LWR ).
• Supports dynamic pageReference assignment.

LICENSE

MIT