title: Opening pdf in browser from link
body: <p>I have a link as such</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a target="_blank" href="{{ str_replace(Request::path(), '', Request::url()) . $finalsHistory-&gt;file_path }}"&gt; 
    &lt;img src="{{ str_replace(Request::path(), '', Request::url()) . $finalsHistory-&gt;thumbnail_path}}" alt="cover final"/&gt;
  &lt;/a&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and  I'm trying to make it so that the pdf does not download, but instead opens in a browser window, preferably a new tab.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anyway to do this? As you can see I've already tried <code>target='_blank'</code>, but that just doesn't seem to be working. Is it possible to do this in html or do I need to accomplish this with jQuery?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: This is the full link</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://localhost:8000/uploads/1/finals/printed_books/paperback/4569_text_2013-10-29_8-45-51_1383050752.pdf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://localhost:8000/assets/img/pdfImg.png" alt="cover final"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>