Closing window without IE 5.x error message

[I12BPhil]

I'm using Javascript 1.2<br><br>I'm trying to get IE 5.x to close a parent window by using window.close('name.html') after an openwindow script. It runs fine on the Mac, but on Windows it gives a message: &quot;The webpage you are viewing is trying to close the window. Do you want to close the window?&quot;<br><br>I've tried moving the Javascript into the child (popup) window but it closes the child instead of the previous window, even though the object name is the parent window.<br><br>How do I get around this?

 

[carpeliam]

You can't close a window unless it's been opened from JavaScript (I'm pretty sure that's how it goes). So... open it from JavaScript, and that solves your problem (I think... or, I hope). <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

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[AWEinCA]

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