Behavior

Behavior controls the way links are opened. This can be configured globally or locally with each link.

open

When links are opened with link.open it will use Router.transitionTo() by default, but you can set it to replace to use Router.replaceWith().

prevent

Preventing will stop the browser from natively opening the link. The default behavior implemented here is to mimic browser behavior but move control to ember's routing system, as you'd expect. However, you can customize rsp. extend the default behavior:

import { prevent as originalPrevent } from 'ember-link';

function applicationPrevent(event: Event | unknown, link: Link): boolean {
  // something very specific to the entire application
}

function preventForLink(link: Link): boolean {
  // something custom for a given link
}

function prevent(event: Event | unknown, link: Link) {
  return (
    originalPrevent(event) 
    || applicationPrevent(event, link) 
    || preventForLink(link)
  );
}

provide global rules in applicationPrevent() that address your entire application. As Link instance is passed as well, there can be a prevent for a given link, that is customized with application specific behavior.