closing a pop up which also goes to a new page

twowoo · October 20th, 2003, 04:16 PM

Hello,

I have a pop up on my site. On the pop up is a link to another standard page on my site. The problem is that it opens a new browser when the link is clicked. I have to set it to parent, because I don't want the page to open IN the pop-up window (there are not scrollbars, etc.)

I want a button which will close the pop up AND take users to that other page on my site, by replacing the main page (the page that generated the pop up to start with).

So the user is thus left with just one window open, the one they got to from the link on the pop up.

Any ideas?

planoie · October 20th, 2003, 04:34 PM

You direct the "parent" window by referencing window.opener and setting the location.href property. So you end up with this:

window.opener.location.href = "myNewPage.html"; //or any URL
window.close();

"parent" doesn't really work with multiple windows as it does with framesets. Once a window is opened, it's kind of on its own even though it does know who opened it.

newWindow.html
<html>
<head>
    <script language="JavaScript">
    
</script>
</head>
<body>
    <a href="javascript:goWindow();">Open new window</a>
</body>
</html>

popupWindow.html
<html>
<head>
    <script language="JavaScript">
    
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <a href="javascript:closeWindow();">Go to google in "parent" window and close this one.</a>
</body>
</html>

Peter

joefawcett · October 21st, 2003, 04:00 AM

Might try:

Code:

window.opener.top.location.href = "myPage.htm";

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Joe