To open a link in the parent window inside a Iframe you can use the one of the below methods: If We wants all the link to open in the parent window then use the below tag in the header: < head >< base target=" _parent ">< base ></ head > We can also use the tag target =" _parent " in < a href=" aboutus " target=" _blank "/> tag We can also use javascript parent.document.location.href = " http://example.com ";