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**jimse** · 19 May 2010, 05:32

According to the FAQ, this is not the right solution, but in my ListGrid.createRecordComponent, I was able to do this by creating a com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Anchor, and adding that to a com.smartgwt.client.widgets.WidgetCanvas and returning the WidgetCanvas (making sure to set the WidgetCanvas height smaller than default).

There must be a better way, but I'm not sure what it is.

Jim

**davidj6** · 19 May 2010, 06:08

You should be able to use type 'link'. See the docs on setTarget() to avoid the default action and then add a click handler.

**jimse** · 19 May 2010, 08:57

Thanks David,

I can set the DataSource type to FieldType.LINK, but Neither DataSource (nor DataSourceLinkField) have the setTarget() method. there's a setTarget() on LinkItem.

So, in ListGrid.createRecordComponent I created a DynamicForm and LinkItem, put the LinkItem on the form, and returned the form (after calling LinkItem.setTarget("javascript"); and adding the click handler.

Needless to say, the HTML is much deeper than the WidgetCanvas containing the Anchor :( Both work, but this method follows the recommendations in the FAQ.

I wish there was just a simple Anchor subclass of Canvas

**davidj6** · 19 May 2010, 09:28

You are correct on the DataSourceLinkField. However, from the Yahoo! Web Service example you can set the target via setAttribute:

Code:

DataSourceLinkField fullImage = new DataSourceLinkField("link", "Full Image");  
        fullImage.setValueXPath("Url");  
        fullImage.setAttribute("target", "_blank");

Just use "javascript" instead of "_blank".

Then you should be able to just register a click handler for the cell to do what you want.

**jimse** · 19 May 2010, 10:45

Ah yeah, cool! Thanks :)

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