I have an visual studio web aspx application with a close window command button, named finish on my aspx application web page. I have code below that closes the page when clicked, but, I stoll receive the warning message. How can I get the aspx page to simply close "with out the message box requiring a yes or no" to close.

Here is my existing code:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
           FinishButton1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "window.opener = top; window.close();")
    End Sub

    Protected Sub FinishButton1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FinishButton1.Click
                Response.Write("<script language='javascript'> { self.opener = top; self.close() }</script>")

    End Sub

You can't close the parent window without IE spawning that message, it is a security feature that you can not override.

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Thank you,

I asked the question because, I saw a previous post about the same thing I am working on, http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37337, and decided to give it a try.

Hello,

I just want to close the current window that I am using. When I clik on a link on on my main menu, a new window page opens. I would like to close the new window without a message.

THank you in advance.

How do you open the new window? Normally if you use the javascript function: window.open() to open a new window, that window can be closed with window.close() without receiving the warning message.

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I open the new window from an hyperlink (version 2.0.0.0 .net) using the NavigateUrl property set to the page and the Target property set to _blank.

Thank you in advance,

Ok, just a general FYI, this is not related in anyway to the .NET framework, it is more how IE handles how windows are closed.

What you should try, instead of using a normal hyperlink, is to use the window.open() function to open your window and then try calling the close window function. This should work for you. (You could trigger the window.open event from a hyperlink however.)

hth.

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The command button with the window.open code attached works when I use the command directly on a form, but when I use it from within a InsertItemTemplate it does not work.

What do you mean?

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Well you can try this, this should close the page without message

window.opener = null; window.close();


Regards
Mike