By dav0 on

I only want to create a link to an external site, so I do the usual html thing in an article with full html turned on:

<a href="http://sitetogoto.com">Click here to go to a site</a>

which works, except the external site content only loads into the content frame and my site's header is still there above.

I must be missing some default setting somewhere in the Bartic theme or something which causes this to happen in articles, etc.

Or, maybe there is some fancy non-standard way to link to external sites that I am not finding in the Drupal books and documentation?

Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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rj commented

Have you tried target=_parent or target=_blank? The latter usually does the trick if it's in an iFrame...

--rj

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dav0 commented

I am not using any iframes on this page, but I did have the "External Iframe" module enabled on my site.

Disabling the "External Iframe" module seems to have fixed the issue, but now I need to go investigate what effect disabling this module has on the page which I needed this module for in the first place (primarily just my experimental facebook page I think).

I had tried the usual HTML tricks like this, which is why I was so baffled by this:
Using "_parent" results in the same issue as described - the new site appearing under the header.
Using "_blank" results in a new tab appearing with the same issue as with "_parent"

Keep in mind that this is a Basic Page in Drupal 7 with a default Bartik theme. Nothing fancy was going on here on this page anyway.

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nevets commented

If the link is external to the site, unless it's in an iframe it should not present your site theme at all.

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dav0 commented

It turns out - it is the beta "External Iframe" module which was causing this issue!

I was thinking I needed this module enabled for my experimental facebook page on my site, but it seems that it is influencing *all* pages on my site!

Disabling this module fixes the issue.