just needed the right search term in google: see http://soenkerohde.com/2008/09/air-html-with-_blank-links/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "arieljake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How are people handling the situation when a link clicked inside an > HTML control is set to open in a new window. The HTML control does > nothing, and I am wondering how we can handle this. > > It's been a while since I worked with javascript...is there an object > we can add an event listener to so that we can catch this occurence > and set the HTML control's location? Can I add event listeners to > javascript objects inside an AIR app written in Flex? > > Thanks. >