Conditionally have anchor links send user to a different page, rather than load to ng-view

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I have a view that contains an anchor link. That link has an href to another url in my site. Angular tries to load that site, using html5mode. I would rather just have default behavior for that link and send the user off to the url. How can I specify that this particular link should behave like a normal html link, not an angular route?

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AngularJS understands a few rules that will make the browser perform a full reload. The rules are documented under the 'Html link rewriting' section in the $location service documentation. From the documentation: In cases like the following, links are not rewritten; instead, the browser will perform a full page reload to the original link. - Links that contain target element Example: `link` - Absolute links that go to a different domain Example: `link` - Links starting with '/' that lead to a different base path when base is defined Example: `link` Note that the last example only works if you have used the `base` element in the head section of your page: ``` ```

Conditionally have anchor links send user to a different page, rather than load to ng-view

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