Obtain Click information before page changes in Google tag manager

Question

For doing event tracking, I am using the Click variables from Google tag manager to check which ID/Text I should use to create as a trigger. I set GTM into preview mode and then go to my website to capture the gtm.click stage and see in there what the Click ID is.

However, when I want to track the Click ID being taken from a link that changes the page, I lose the data in the preview of GTM as a new page is loaded. Does anyone know how can I either keep this information or specifically stop the page switch once the gtm.click event is registered in the preview?

Answer 1

There are a couple of workarounds:

1) The solution mentioned by @Eike Pierstorff for Mac. In Chrome on Windows, you can hold Ctrl and click the link

2) Open developer console in your browser and execute this code:

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
    a[i].setAttribute('target', '_blank'); 
}

This code will set modify all links with target=_blank attribute. Then you can just click on links normally