Preserved Topic: window.close()

OK, so I want to close a window without the annoying thing coming up that says This page is trying to close the window do you want to let it. I know there must be a way, because when a person clicks a link that closes a window it closes without that message. So, anyone know how I'd do this without any user input like clicking a link.

kewl

Mad Scientist

You can only close windows that you've opened yourself without that message appearing.

How would I close another window. I tried just doing:

window.open("2w.html","asdf");
window.close("asdf");

But it didn't work, it just tried to close the current window, not the one I opened. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


kewl

Mad Scientist

window always refers to the current window. If you want to refer to another window, you have to get a reference to that window, like this:

otherwindow = window.open("2w.html","asdf");
otherwindow.close(); // takes no arguments

Thanks, I thought you used the title of the window as an argument, oh well. Thanks again, it's working fine now.

kewl

Mad Scientist