Creating and clicking on a Link, programmatically

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this may be a security implementation from the browser - preventing malicious websites from forcing tabs to open - but maybe something else.

You could try taking the approach used here:

How to make a link open in the current tab

a bit late but you can do something like: in Native Libraries: function open_url_same_tab(url) { window.open(url, "_self"); } link click event self.link.tag = some_url # set this in the design view def link_click(self, **event_args): js.call_js('open_url_same_tab', self.link.tag) proof of concept https://anvil.works/build#clone:FPDIXYWNGETIDKY4=RTZT5HHDHUEY6QJN2K5HGRAP EDIT: since this post anvil has improved its js integration: from anvil.js import window def link_click(self…