From e86992a7eedd0ae43f571965db2bc44a401337c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Scalzi <d_scalzi@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:27:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Open anchor hrefs in the default browser. (#111)

---
 src/renderer/index.tsx | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/renderer/index.tsx b/src/renderer/index.tsx
index bc67866c..eed7aaa6 100644
--- a/src/renderer/index.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/index.tsx
@@ -2,20 +2,21 @@ import * as React from 'react'
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
 import { AppContainer } from 'react-hot-loader'
 import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
-// import { shell } from 'electron'
+import { shell } from 'electron'
 import store from './redux/store'
 
 import Application from './components/Application'
 
 import './index.css'
 
-
-// document.addEventListener('click', (event: MouseEvent) => {
-//     if ((event.target as HTMLElement)?.tagName === 'A' && (event.target as HTMLAnchorElement)?.href.startsWith('http')) {
-//         event.preventDefault()
-//         shell.openExternal((event.target as HTMLAnchorElement).href)
-//     }
-// })
+// Open anchor hrefs in the default browser.
+document.addEventListener('click', (event: MouseEvent) => {
+    const anchor: HTMLAnchorElement | null = (event.target as HTMLElement).closest('a')
+    if(anchor != null && anchor.hasAttribute('href') && anchor.getAttribute('href')!.toLowerCase().startsWith('http')) {
+        event.preventDefault()
+        shell.openExternal(anchor.href)
+    }
+})
 
 // Create main element
 const mainElement = document.createElement('div')