Open Link on Browser in Ionic Framework

To be able to open a link in an Ionic Framework based app, we need to install InAppBrowser plugin. If you use Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, you can open config.xml file and find in Plugins section.

After installing the plugin, we don’t need to pass any new module in the code function constructor. All we need to do is just to call the functions directly like:

cordova.InAppBrowser.open('http://www.google.com', '_system');
// or we can use
window.open('http://www.google.com', '_system');

_system target is used so that the link will be opened on system's web browser.

In HTML code, we can call like this:

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('https://www.google.com', '_system');">my link</a>

Don’t forget to include the ‘http://’ otherwise you will get an error like ‘Cannot display PDF (… cannot be opened).