This was discussed on aspclient just a while back.  Here is an article about
how to do this (normally, this should be impossible if browsers followed
specs and were interested in security).

http://aspalliance.com/peterbrunone/impossible.asp

Benjamin D. Gray
Consultant
G Computer Network

-----Original Message-----
From: Empier4552@a... [mailto:Empier4552@a...]
Sent: Monday, August 5, 2002 3:53 pm
To: JavaScript HowTo
Subject: [javascript_howto] Open one window close another..

Hey I have a page with a link that when clicked opens a popup window. How
can
I make it so that when that button si clicked that page closes as the new
one
pops up?



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