href opening new browser window/tab

Hello,

In the code below, is it possible to change the href behaviour to opening the URL in a new browser window/tab?

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data
from urllib.parse import urlencode

def make_google_query(name):
    return "https://www.google.com/search?" + urlencode({'q': '"{0}"'.format(name)})

cars = data.cars()
cars['url'] = cars['Name'].apply(make_google_query)

alt.Chart(cars).mark_circle(size=60).encode(
    x='Horsepower',
    y='Miles_per_Gallon',
    color='Origin',
    href='url',
    tooltip=['Name', 'url']
)

[joelostblom]

Answered on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72238350/how-to-open-url-from-altair-chart-in-a-new-tab-href/, you can set the usermeta on the chart dictionary:

chart['usermeta'] = {
    "embedOptions": {
        'loader': {'target': '_blank'}
    }
}

[jakevdp]

No, there’s no way to do this, unfortumately. See https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/issues/3795