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Humza A.'s avatar
Humza A.
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11 years ago

Open Dropbox API Authorization request in a new Tab

I have a web application running on my local host and I am using Dropbox Core API in the web app to upload files. However, the Dropbox authentication page opens in the same tab in the browser as my w...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

Well yes, you're adding target="_blank" to an anchor tag but then intercepting the click. :-)

It looks like you're using dropbox.js to open the auth page. Take a look at https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-js/blob/stable/guides/builtin_drivers.md, which Greg linked to in his first response. There you'll find the various options that the dropbox.js library has implemented. I think the popup driver is probably your best bet. JavaScript can't force a page to open in a new tab versus a new window. (This is controlled by the browser and varies from browser to browser.)

You could use an actual anchor tag with target="_blank", but this sort of thing isn't implemented in dropbox.js, so you'd be on your own to construct the right URL.

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