closing parent window when child opens

**lenin** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 08:34 AM

Hi,
I have been trying to close a parent window when it spawns a child using the opener.close method, but have had no success. When I try to run the javascript command in the child window it reports unterminated string or runtime error. Can anyone see the problem or provide source to do this?

Source:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>

<HEAD><TITLE>New Window Test</TITLE>
<FORM>

<BODY>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
</script>";

pageContent += "</BODY><FORM></HTML>";

cardWindow = open("","cardWin","width=450,height=350,resizable=1");

with (cardWindow.document)
{
open();
write(pageContent);
close();
}

}

//-->
</SCRIPT>

<INPUT type=button value="New Window" onclick=newWin();>

</BODY></FORM></HTML>

Mar 2nd, 2001, 11:45 AM

Try this code for closing your windows.

Code:

<script language="javascript">

function closeWin()
{
window.close();
};

</script>

<A HREF="javascript:closeWin();"
onMouseOver="window.status='close the Window';return true";>close Window</A>

**lenin** · Mar 2nd, 2001, 11:58 AM

Matthew will this not just close the current window. I want a parent to open a new window, and when the new window opens the parent closes.

Thanks

Lenin.

**harsoni** · Mar 16th, 2001, 01:34 PM

This is impossible i guess...

sonia

**Mark Sreeves** · Mar 19th, 2001, 06:16 AM

Originally posted by harsoni
This is impossible i guess...

sonia

Don't guess!

Code:

Put the following in the child: 

<script langauge="JavaScript"><!--
opener.close();
//--></script>

 

Although you'll need to make sure that the opener has been defined for browsers that don't have it by default, by placing the following in the parent: 

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
msgWindow=open('',window,'resizable=no,width=200,height=200');
msgWindow.location.href ='apage.html';
if (msgWindow.opener == null) msgWindow.opener = self;
//--></script>

 

Note, that this will likely prompt the user for confirmation before closing the window.

**harsoni** · Mar 19th, 2001, 04:35 PM

Hey Mark,
That is good you showed in fact we can close the parent window from the child window...but i have a problem how do u avoid the message box that pops up???

Sonia

**Mark Sreeves** · Mar 20th, 2001, 03:18 AM

I had a feeling that question would be next!

this might help:
http://developer.irt.org/script/366.htm

I haven't tried it though

(my last post came from www.irt.org as well)

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