html - Phonegap - How to open external link inside the app

Question

I'm stuck. I'm working on a iOS phonegap app. On my homepage I have a link

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/file/news.html" rel="external" target="_system"><IMAGE></a>

And I have also added *mysite.com into the Cordova.plist (ExternalHosts).

But when I click on the link it will open up a browser and link me to that page. I have tried target="_self", but it doesn't work. How to make it open the page within the app itself?

Answer 1

You can push it to browser using this javascript snip,

window.open("http://yourexternallink.com","_system");

Even if you have inAppBrowser installed, this will take you to browser..

If you wish to open the link inside your app, you need below snippet,

var onInApp = window.open('http://paymentpage.com', '_blank', 'location=no,hidden=yes,closebuttoncaption=Done,toolbar=no');

make sure that you added cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser plugin..