Tell parent window to go somewhere and close

[gameon]

Hi There, I have a place where I keep all my js functions.

One of may functions launches (user requested) popups.

I am trying to write a function that I can call from any one of the popups that tells the parent window to go to a url and the closes the pop_up.

Eg I would just include a working function like this in my inclded functions:

function GoToAndClose(theURL){
// main window go to url
window.opener=self;
window.opener.location.href=theURL;

//close the popup
this.close();
}

Naturally - the above donen't work on any browser...

Please advise...

M@)

 

[theboyhope]

window.opener.location.href=theURL

should work fine. To close the popup use

self.close();

.

I dunno why you've got the

window.opener=self;

bit in there.

HTH.

 

[gameon]

Cheers mate - I'm now using:

function PopAction(url){
// main window go to url
window.opener.location.href=url;
//Close the popup
self.close();
}

and calling it with:
<a href=&quot;javascriptopAction('

http://http://www.tek-tips.com')&quot;>link</a>

Cheers,

M@)