why is _blank suddenly stopped working Jira Dashboard

[Devendra Chindarkar]

I have a following code on a dashboard to create links. But the target is opening inside the dashboard.

<tr>
<td><font face="calibri" size="3"><b>ATM1</b></font></td>
<td><font face="calibri" size="3"><a href="https://agile-jira.ABC.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=xxxx&projectKey=xxxx&view=planning&selectedIssue=xxxx-nnnn&issueLimit=100" target="_blank">ABCD - ABCD 1</a>
</font>
</td>
</tr>

[Ingo Mohr]

If you have Jira 9.1 or later, this is broken.

See https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-76350

There's a workaround described in the issue, too. It worked for our server.

[Dave Mathijs]

HI @Devendra Chindarkar welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Have you tried it in another browser as well?

[Ingo Mohr]

Same here. Jira Server 9.10.2.

In fact, the target="_blank" occurrences are gone. When I re-add them and save the Text gadget and reopen it again, they are gone again. I tried that 3 times with direct-editing and copy-paste from a text-editor.

EDIT: I found the bug issue for this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-76350

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Also, the Text gadget is now marked deprecated - w/o any hint on what to use instead.

What gadget is supposed to replace the deprecated Text gadget?