Close Page

[kidzer]

How do you get a javascript that will close a page to work in a page with frames?

Help!

David, 14
Scotland

[raf]

You can not close a page.

[whackaxe]

wrong:
window.close()

or in frames:
top.window.close()

that should work, i haven't doen any JS in AAAGES. its worthwile to note that you can't close a window that you havent opened. if you do try, the user will get a dialogue asking if he wants to close the window

[kidzer]

Thanks very much lads

[me']

Not reccommended, people won't like having a window closed whether they wanted it open in the first place or not. Magically appearing/dissappearing windows are never good.

[raf]

Originally posted by whackaxe
wrong:
window.close()

or in frames:
top.window.close()

So a window is the same as a page ? Never heard that.

I always thought that if you had a frameset, that a seperate page was displayed inside each frame. And that there is no such thing as a frame where no page is loaded in, nor can you have a window where no page is loaded in.

[whackaxe]

well i was assuming he meant window. i mean, why would you close a page? you could always link to about:blank (or whatever it is) or lin kthe frame that you want kept open for the whole page.

frames are generally bad things though. try not to use them