Opening an external website in a modal popup

Question

I know that Click here opens the link in a new tab (default behaviour in Chrome an

Answer 1

Based on Sphinx's great answer, here is what I'll use to create a modal popup displaying an external website in a iframe with a dark background for the rest of the page when the popup is open:

document.getElementById("link").onclick = function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  document.getElementById("popupdarkbg").style.display = "block";
  document.getElementById("popup").style.display = "block";
  document.getElementById('popupiframe').src = "http://example.com";
  document.getElementById('popupdarkbg').onclick = function() {
      document.getElementById("popup").style.display = "none";
      document.getElementById("popupdarkbg").style.display = "none";
  };
  return false;
}

window.onkeydown = function(e) {
    if (e.keyCode == 27) {
      document.getElementById("popup").style.display = "none";
      document.getElementById("popupdarkbg").style.display = "none";
      e.preventDefault();
      return;
    }
}

#popup { display: none; position: fixed; top: 12%; left: 15%; width: 70%; height: 70%; background-color: white; z-index: 10; }
#popup iframe { width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; }
#popupdarkbg { position: fixed; z-index: 5; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.75); display: none; }

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