close Method
This method is used to close a specified window. If no window reference is supplied, the close() method will close the current active window. Note that this method will only close windows created using the open() method; if you attempt to close a window not created using open(), the user will be prompted to confirm this action with a dialog box before closing. The single exception to this is if the current active window has only one document in its session history. In this case the closing of the window will not require confirmation.

Hope that helps.
Cheers!

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-Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

You can try this for testing the second case said in my previous post regarding "only one document in its session history".

http://www.internet-nexus.com/books/vbscript/chap05.htm

1) open this URL.
2) scroll till the end of the page. (under Closing the browser window)
3) Do a SHIFT + mouse click on "close method" link there. Then try closing that new window resulted, from this step by clciking the button shown there. This does not ask for confirmation
4) Try clicking the "close method" link on that page without "SHIFT KEY press". Now, in this method, it would ask for confirmation to close the browser window.

Hope that explains.
Cheers!

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-Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

hello happygv,

Just for an interest sake. Is there any way to prevent the confirmation from appearing (if the window is not opened with the help of window.open method / target=_blank) ?

thanks

AFAIK, I dont think that is possible. May be someone come up with a work around for that, still that could be a rare possibility, as it is about controlling the behaviour of the browser.

You can, if its session history has just that one document, like you see here in this p2p.wrox website, when you subscribe to a forum/topic, that opens up a new window saying you are subscribed, and that closes without any confirmation, as it has just that one document in its history.

Cheers!

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-Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

There is a secret way to close the window without the prompt box, it uses JavaScript.

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

Redirect to the user's home page:

location.replace("about:home"); //dont enter into history, or...
location = "about:home"; //do enter into history

HTH,

Snib

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Hi snib,

Thanks a lot for the so simple solution. This makes me satisfy a long sought request of one of my client.