How to use close window button in Iframe to close parent window

[ASH360]

Hi,
I would like to use a close window button in an iframe with the effect of closing down the window. I've had a good look - a novice I'm afraid - but I do undersand that a fucntion call has to be made to the parent window. I have access to the html in both Iframe and parent and would be grateful if someone could help me with this.
Showing the code in full would be a godsend.
Many thanks
Kind Regards
Mark

 

[vacunita]

While the access would be somewhat straight forward:

<input type=button value="Attempt to Close" onClick="parent.window.close(); return false">

There is no guarantee it will actually work for several reasons.

If the iframe's content comes from a domain different to the parent window it has no access to the parent window so no access to the window's methods like close().

http://www.domain1.com/parent.html

<iframe src="

http://www.differentdomain.com/iframe.html">

Also browsers have settings to disable the closing of windows by scripts that did not open them.

In other words closing a window from a script in an iframe is not likely to work for the most part.



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