IWebBrowser2: how to force links to open in new window?

Question

The MSDN documentation on WebBrowser Customization explains how to prevent new windows from being opened and how to cancel navigation. In my case, my application is hosting

Answer 1

You could try a different approach instead and physically add the attribute target="_blank" to all tags in the rendered document.

This approach would involve waiting for DISPID_DOCUMENTCOMPLETE and then using IHTMLDocument3::getElementsByTagName() to fetch all of the anchor elements. You would then use IHTMLElement::setAttribute() to set target="_blank" on each of them.