How can I prevent links in iframes from opening in new window?

Question

Consider this simple link:

<a href="#" onclick="javascript:{return false;}">Do Nothing</a>

When this is in the main document in a window, clicking it does nothing, because the return false cancels the click.

But when this is in an iframe document (in Firefox and Chrome at least), it opens a new tab window.

This is very annoying because I want to be able to hook a click event (in actuality using jQuery's $(element).click(handler)) ), do some logic, cancel the navigation, and NOT have that extra tab.

What's going on here and how can I stop this behavior?

Answer 1

It turned out that I had an unrelated jQuery click event that was causing this behavior, so this was my user error. Dumb.