JS Window Close

[candrid]

Hey I wanted to click a link on my index page... have the new page load and close the index... perf. Java script, though be warned that I do not know Java script very well so if you could explain it to me a bit, I'd appricate it.

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[Bentley22]

Are you opening a new page(window) from the index page, then closing the index page? Please be clearer. If this is the case, you can, however IE will prompt the user to confirm the closure, since index is your parent window. "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us"
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

 

[candrid]

Yup,

I want to close the window (parent). Thanks. I would rather have it that the prompt didnt pop up though.

Maybe a script that chamges its name from (parent) to something else during its load.... hmm who knows. thanks.

-can. --"Hello Microsoft? Yeah this is Mike again.. now it says: "Hit any key when ready..." My question is: "Where's the "any key"? Is my keyboard broken..?

 

[DeZiner]

Javascript will only close a window that javascripts open. When trying to close the main or parent window that was not created with script it will warn DeZiner
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[Bentley22]

Fraid DeZiner's right, if its a parent window, nothing you can do about it. Incedentially, why would you want to close the index page anyway? If you don't want it hanging around, why not just have your new page load in the same browser? "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us"
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

 

[GUJUm0deL]

why not have a button or a link that will enable the parent window to close from the child window?? You know what I mean?? I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...