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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:42:04+00:00

In a iframe I set the src to a page containing Silverlight Web Part,

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In a iframe I set the src to a page containing Silverlight Web Part, it doesn’t generate any anchor element, but on the silverlight web part there are text we can click on and they will redirect the page to a new url.

The problem is the url always opens in the iframe instead of the parent window. I tried the following things:

<base target="_search" />
<base target="_top" />
<base target="_parent" />

inside the <head></head> of my iframe page and without the "" and the / but none worked.

The Silverlight is a Sharepoint component so I could not change it or see the code to know how it open links, so I could do nothing about that.

I’d like very much to know if there are any other violent ways to force links to open in the parent window? Thanks for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If this is the same issue I’ve been working on(adding the organization browser in sharepoint inside of an iFrame) today this may help. On the page that contains the silverlight web part and is viewed through an iFrame on a different page, I override the window.open function that is used by silverlight to change the url. Below I change the URL of the parent window so the subsequent navigation takes place in the main window and the iframe is completely transparent to the user.

    This may be useful to you, haven’t tried, but I’m assuming you’ll be able to find your other iframes once you get to the top frame. This is also cross domain in my case.

    <script>
//Window.open override - catches HTMLWindow.Navigate from silverlight hyperlink
window.open = function (open) {
    return function (url, name, features) {
        window.top.location = url;
        return false;
   };
}(window.open);
</script>
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