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Idhem
Idhem

Reputation: 964

Open an html file in new browser tab from cell (Markdown or python) in jupyterlab

I'm trying to open an html file in a new browser tab in Jupyterlab. The jupyterLab that I'm working on is hosted in a container remotely.

The solution that I already tried are:

This works fine with Jupyter, but when I run it on jupyterLab, I got the file get opened in jupyter tab (not browser tab)

import webbrowser, os
webbrowser.open('file:///' + os.path.realpath("docs/yenko/index.html"))

This solution also works fine in Jupyter notebook, but when I tried jupyterLab, I got false as output

from IPython.display import IFrame
IFrame(src="docs/yenko/index.html", width='100%', height='1000px')

This solution works fine, but I kept it as alternative. Currently I'm looking to display the content in new browser tab, not inside the notebook.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3460

Answers (1)

the-citto
the-citto

Reputation: 137

In Jupyterlab an href to an external link like

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com">test ext html</a>

opens in a new tab of the browser, both in markdown and in a code cell with magic %%html

you can try creating a shared folder and writing the (usual) hrefs of your local html files with their full network path to see if jupyterlab doesn't interpret them as local


note:

normally, in jupyterlab, markdown cells render local links changing the actual href of, say, test.html into http://localhost:8888/files/test.html

adding actually many more attributes to <a> on rendering, you can see this inspecting the jupyterlab's webpage (ctrl+shift+i in chrome)

Upvotes: 1

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