[FIX] web: support anchor tags with action type in views

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/abstract_controller.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/abstract_controller.js
index 1dacce59fa6..b84f6ec1951 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/abstract_controller.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/abstract_controller.js
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ var AbstractController = Widget.extend({
     custom_events: {
         open_record: '_onOpenRecord',
     },
+    events: {
+        'click a[type="action"]': '_onActionClicked',
+    },
 
     /**
      * @constructor
@@ -291,6 +294,17 @@ var AbstractController = Widget.extend({
             model: this.modelName,
         });
     },
+    /**
+     * When a user clicks on an <a> link with type="action", we need to actually
+     * do the action. This kind of links is used a lot in no-content helpers.
+     *
+     * @private
+     * @param {OdooEvent} event
+     */
+    _onActionClicked: function (event) {
+        event.preventDefault();
+        this.do_action(event.target.name);
+    },
 
 });