How open link in new or same tab, not iframe (in Forge Custom UI App)?

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I need to open a link from inside a Custom UI Forge App, which sits in an iframe.

What normally would work ist add a target attribute to the link, like some of these:

<a href="https://companyname.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~890443289/pages/59286777" target="_blank">
<a href="https://companyname.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~890443289/pages/59286777" target="_top">
<a href="https://companyname.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~890443289/pages/59286777" target="_parent">

Where the first one would open the link in a new Browser tab, the others would open it in in the same Browser tab.

For reasons I don’t understand this would not work from within an iframe of an Forge Custom UI App.

Why? Or, how could I make it work?

When I leave the target argument away, when clicking on a link the whole Confluence Page would open in that iframe, so I have a Confluence page embedded in a Confluence page, with the sidebar, menu and so on.

The only thing working is by clicking with the middle mouse button on that link, but who does this?

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Okay, you have to pass the link via data-attribute, in the Custom UI part read that link out on click and pass it to router.navigate() or router.open() (https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/custom-ui-bridge/router/).

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