html in Description

Hi,

Only basic html can be used, most tags will be stripped. There is no option to change this at the moment.

Could you please elaborate a bit? There might be a script that adds the “target blank” to links inside certain elements, we would need to know what display type you are using (you can share the shortcode) and also what lightbox.

Let me know at your earliest convenience.

Thanks for reply.

Using Basic Thumbnail display. Gallery options settings include default-view.php. Examining the assembled page html suggests class fancybox.

At the moment, ‘target=”_blank” is stripped when editing the gallery data itself, but I appreciate there may be a way of adding it back during display via a CSS injection.

Try adding this script to your site

<script >window.onload = function(){
 var anchors = document.getElementById('fancybox-title-inside').getElementsByTagName('a');
 for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++){
  anchors[i].setAttribute('target', '_blank');
 }
                  
  }</script>

See if that works and let me know

Thanks for the suggestion.
I used WPCode plugin to insert the script. I tried both in footer and in body.
Unfortunately, no go. Examining the page content, there is no element with ID ‘fancybox-title-inside’. Even if there was it would only select the first item on the page and not all images in the gallery.
There are classes ngg-gallery-thumbnail and ngg-fancybox but if they are selected, then there are several <a> tags including the gallery image itself.

It is easiest to add a user instruction on the page to hold Shift before clicking on the link. This opens the link in a new window.