How to close a page launched from gridview hyperlink

[furtivevole]

Hi
I have just been asked to take on an existing asp.net project for the first time.
In one case, the results of a search are displayed through a gridview, with one of the columns being defined as a hyperlinkfield. This launches a separate page (currently, target="_blank"). The user would like a close button or similar on the new page, which would be easy enough with a jscript pop-up, but I'm told that gridview cannot support jscript and it would have to be done with C# code. So far I've not been able to google any examples. Can anyone give any insight on this please?

 

[jmeckley]

but I'm told that gridview cannot support jscript and it would have to be done with C# code.

This person does not understand what they are saying.
1. gridview is just a control to render an html table. it's completely customizable.
2. c# (or vb) is no use. that is server code, what you require is client code (js).

what you require is strictly html, no asp.net required. (you could use an asp:button or asp:Hyperlink, but you don't need too.) just add a button/link (which ever they prefer) and add javascript to close the window.

<input type=button value="close" onclick=javascript:window.Close();" />
//or
<a href="void();" onclick=javascript:window.Close();">close</a>

there are plenty of examples on line about using html/javascript to close browser windows.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[furtivevole]

JMackley, you were right. For reference, this is what I put in the master page:

<script type="text/javascript">
   function closeme(){
        window.opener = null;
        window.close();
   }
</script>

Within various form pages, a linkbutton included the following property:

OnClientClick="closeme();