Close Window with Javascript

mario11 · January 9th, 2012, 12:47 PM

Hello Everyone!

I really need some help with this matter. I work with an aplication that's got a "viewer" for the pages or activities that I make. So whatever I do is oppened through this viewer.

The viewer gets an ID (which I don't know what will be). So I want to create a button that will close the window of the viewer. I get the ID of the window first:

var itsMe
function whoAreYou(){
itsMe = window.name
}

and with the name of the window, I call this function that is supposed to close the window:

function closeWindow(){
Windows.close(itsMe)
}

but it doesn't work! ;-(

Can somebody help me, please?!

Is that the correct syntax?

Thanks!

joefawcett · January 9th, 2012, 12:56 PM

Unless something has changed very recently the code to close a window is:

Code:

window.close();

Note that, in modern browsers, this only works if you have opened the window via script, it DOESN'T work on windows opened by the user in a normal fashion.

mario11 · January 9th, 2012, 01:47 PM

well the window has a close button that does this:

onclick="Windows.close("window_1326126077465", event)"

so I wanto to have a button on my app that does the same thing. But the id "window_132612608..." is generated dynamically