diff --git a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Nextmatch.php b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Nextmatch.php
index 79a1c71bd1..ae25e21121 100644
--- a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Nextmatch.php
+++ b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/Nextmatch.php
@@ -848,7 +848,17 @@ class Nextmatch extends Etemplate\Widget
 				//echo "*** Inserting id=$prefix$id"; _debug_array($action);
 				// we break at end of foreach loop, as rest of actions is already dealt with
 				// by putting them as children
-			}
+				
+				// sets the default attributes to every children dataset 
+				if (is_array($action['children'])) {
+					foreach ($action['children'] as $key => $children) {
+						// checks if children is a valid array and if the "$default_attrs" variable exists
+ 						if (is_array($action['children'][$key]) && $default_attrs) {
+							$action['children'][$key] += $default_attrs;
+						}
+					}
+				}	
+			}	
 
 			// add all first level popup actions plus ones with enabled = 'javaScript:...' to action_links
 			if ((!isset($action['type']) || in_array($action['type'],array('popup','drag','drop'))) &&	// popup is the default
@@ -1172,4 +1182,4 @@ class Nextmatch extends Etemplate\Widget
 }
 
 // Registration needs to go here, otherwise customfields won't be loaded until some other cf shows up
-Etemplate\Widget::registerWidget(__NAMESPACE__.'\\Customfields', array('nextmatch-customfields'));
\ No newline at end of file
+Etemplate\Widget::registerWidget(__NAMESPACE__.'\\Customfields', array('nextmatch-customfields'));