How to Make all Links Within an iframe or Google Gadget Open in a New Window

August 11, 2009 / 7 Comments

Just made a Google gadget from the Twitter widget code and realized that all the links were opening within the Google gadget iframe.

This is no good. A quick and dirty solution for this…

If you need to have all links within an iframe or Google gadget use “base target”.

To do this you will need to add a head section to your gadget immediately after the “[CDATA[” part and add the “base target=”_blank”

basetarget

This will in most cases take care of the problem and make all links inside that iframe or Google gadget open up in a new window.

Posted in: google gadgets

7 Comments

  1. blither
    October 18, 2009 at 8:09 pm /

    Why are u the only one posting this as a solution…Possible SEO strategy in itself…
    ummm
    cause it doesn’t work

  2. Amit
    November 25, 2009 at 11:14 am /

    This is really nice info.Thanks for such a wonderful post.

  3. ss goh
    June 14, 2010 at 3:28 am /

    Man, you are superb.
    One line of code is all that is needed to open a link in a new window from within an iframe.
    The other people offering solutions got me on a wild goose chase and no straight forward solution.
    Your’s the best.
    Very grateful web developer here in Singapore.
    SS Goh

  4. glenn
    October 7, 2010 at 11:27 am /

    i love you! thanks for posting this

  5. gammageek
    February 3, 2011 at 12:45 pm /

    wonderful solution

  6. Piero
    July 11, 2011 at 7:48 am /

    Thanks!

  7. Richie
    July 18, 2011 at 11:08 pm /

    Awsome dude, years trying to solve this issue, thanks a lot!!!