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window close link

This may be silly but for some reason my code is not working.
I am trying to close a window with a link (on the same page)

 <a href="javascript:window.close()" class="btn btn-primary m-t">Close window</a>

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When I click on it nothing happens. I am using Firefox.

Julian Hansen

You cannot close a window that your script did not open. You have to have issued a window.open() on the page for that script to work i.e. you can't put script inside a page to close itself.

Aleks

ASKER

I actually used another page script to open the pop up.

<a href="javascript:;" onClick="MyPopUpWin('<%=(rs_apis.Fields.Item("service_url").Value)%><%=(rs_apis.Fields.Item("api_return_url").Value)%>',1000, 800)" " class="btn btn-primary">Create key</a>

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Ryan Chong

also check some of the explanations here:

Window.close()
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/close

in your FF's setting, make sure option: dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows is set as true.

got to about:config page, set the option: dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows to true

Julian Hansen

Take a look at this sample code
HTML (Main Window)

<a href="#" onClick="return MyPopUpWin('t2281-popup.html')" class="btn btn-primary">Create Popup</a>
<a href="#" onClick="newwin.close();this.style.display = 'none'" class="btn btn-danger closePopup">Close</a>

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JavaScript

<script>
var newwin;
function MyPopUpWin(url) {
  newwin = window.open(url, 'MyPopup', "width=300px,height=100px,scroll=no");
  document.querySelector('.closePopup').style.display = 'inline';
  return false;
}
</script>

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Popup Window

<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
I am the popup
<a href="#" onClick="window.close()">Close</a>
</body>
</html>

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Working sample here

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Aleks

ASKER

Thanks for the code. That is very helpful.

Julian Hansen

You are welcome.