Link in Lightning Component Not Firing

Question

I have two links (not buttons) that I'm trying to insert in a Lightning component, but having problems firing them. I start with basic HTML <a> elements and give each an onclick attribute:

<div class="slds-float_left">
    <a aura:id="premStButtonId"
        onclick="{! c.handleButtonClick }">Statement</a>
</div>
<div class="slds-float_right">
    <a aura:id="paySumButtonId"
        onclick="{! c.handleButtonClick }">Summary</a>
</div>

In my Controller I'm using a switch statement so I won't have to repeat the bulk of code. But I specify the window.location.href for the link to go to:

({
    handleButtonClick : function(component, event, helper) {
        var buttonSource = event.getSource();
        var buttonId = buttonSource.getLocalId();

        switch(buttonId) {
            case 'premStButtonId':
                window.location.href = '/premSt/default/';
                break;
            case 'paySumButtonId':
                window.location.href = '/paySum/default/';
                break;
        }
    }
})

I'm still very much a newbie with this, so I can't see where this would fail to fire the link.

Answer 1

The related documentation for this suggests that this only works for SecureComponent, but normal HTML is a SecureElement. As such, a practical way to do this is just use a data attribute:

<a data-id="paySumButtonId" ... />

...

var buttonId = event.target.dataset.id;

Answer 2

If you are in simple lighting experience then you would need to use navigateToURL lighting event as below:

var urlEvent = $A.get("e.force:navigateToURL");
urlEvent.setParams({
  "url": "/006/o"
});
urlEvent.fire();

Ref : https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/bundle/force:navigateToURL/documentation

In Lighting console you should use workspace api, code would like as :

    {(
      openTab : function(component, event, helper) {
        var workspaceAPI = component.find("workspace");
        workspaceAPI.openTab({
            url: '#/sObject/001R0000003HgssIAC/view',
            focus: true
        });
      },
    )}

Ref: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/bundle/lightning:workspaceAPI/documentation