R Shiny hyperlink with custom font size, color, and open link in new browser tab-CodePudding

this question is a follow-up of previous post Create URL hyperlink in R Shiny? .

I'm using the solution shared there, namely:

runApp(
  list(ui = fluidPage(
     uiOutput("tab")
    ),
  server = function(input, output, session){
    url <- a("Google Homepage", href="https://www.google.com/")
    output$tab <- renderUI({
      tagList("URL link:", url)
    })
  })
)

The solution above works fine. However, I would need to:

customize the font size and color
make sure the link opens up a new page in a new browser tab. I can't find a way to achieve these two goals and I'm not familiar with HTML. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

CodePudding user response：

Use style to change font size and color and target="_blank" to open the link in new tab.

library(shiny)

runApp(
  list(ui = fluidPage(
    uiOutput("tab")
  ),
  server = function(input, output, session){
    url <- a("Google Homepage", href="https://www.google.com/", 
             style = "color:orange;font-size:18px", target="_blank")
    output$tab <- renderUI({
      tagList("URL link:", url)
    })
  })
)