getting all pop-ups

nerssi · February 13th, 2006, 05:27 AM

hi all,
How shall I get the windows objects of all the pop-ups which have been opened through a certain page(via window.open call) just like the way one can get all of the window objects of child frames of a page through window.frames collection(and I don't want to save all the handlers of the pop-ups while opening them in order to close them later).

nzakas · February 14th, 2006, 04:59 PM

You can only do that by keeping track of them when they're opened, such as:

Code:

var popups = new Array();

function openWindow(sURL, sName, sFeatures) {
    var oPopup = window.open(sURL, sName, sFeatures);
    popups.push(oPopup);
    return oPopup;
}

Then use the openWindow() function whenever you want to open a new window. Each new instance will be saved in the popups array.

Nicholas C. Zakas
Author, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN 0764579088)
http://www.nczonline.net/

nerssi · February 26th, 2006, 08:25 AM

Thanks but as I mentioned I don't tend to it this way.
if there were such a property in window object (for example childWindows[] )
then I could simply run a recursive function and close all open popups through any frame or popup when the user signs out in a complex portal...

dimo414 · March 7th, 2006, 01:22 AM

nzakas, but doesn't the variable oPopup only work inside the funtion openWindow?