window.close...

ok im having problems closing a window its the index page of my site and i have it redirecting to another page (my home page) ive only done this for a short time until i make a 1024x768 page so at the moment i have just shortcutted by making a new page centering it keeping it at 800x600 and made it so it is unresizable i know i shud make 2 pages and then make it so it loads the right one onload but i havent got the time lol its at http://www.onspring.co.uk hopefully u can get to it this time cos last time u cudnt for some reason
thanx for any help
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oops i didnt ask the question i wanted to ask lol i meant.... i need it to close without the user clicking the ok in the box i know its possible but ive spent time playing around with it and what ive seen is that if u load it in javascript then u can close it without the message box comin up i just dont know how to make it so it doesnt bring up the message box
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put this as your link:

that should do it.

No, that doesn't do it.
it still prompts the dialog box from Windows OS to warn that
this site is trying to close, do you want to allow such?

I've dealt with this before.

I'll have to look around but I recall it would only work properly
if you still had a console from that same domain still open in the background.

The DOM, Document Object Model is not being closed by the user,
the warning comes up because the code selected on the DOM is trying
to close it, thus it asks for user permission.

I foget how we dealt with this problem,
I'll have to check, I do believe we ended up popping
a console while keeping one in the background.

but then again, I would only want to put further effort into this,
if you still needed to resolve this problem.

I wonder if you couldn't just null out the window.alert(string)
within the window.close event.

oh, i forgot about the "same domain" thing. thx for catching that steen.

No reply from him yet hmm...

Apparently you can avoid the alert
if there is only one location in the window's history, so if you open a
child window and close it from within the child window, there is no
message.

It's a Microsoft Security thing!

This problem is not an issue when doing HTA's (applications)
as in:
Invoking the window.close method on an HTA closes the application without prompting the user because the HTA is trusted and follows a different security model.


but in the broswers, it's not the same.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... lose_0.asp


To this date, this is still a *peach* up issue.

I've read comments on flushing out the history before going
to a child window but I'll be damned it I can find a sample anywhere.

sorry ...

sorry flux i been away a while and forgot about this lol but yea steen is rite it dont work but i have seen examples of it working but only on click and not onload security thing how annoying lol
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well after all that looking around at the time i suddnely coem across it earlier while looking for something else but here it is the code that stops it from prompting u asking if u want to close the window so its what uve all been waiting for lol..

so ppl put this after ur window.open() statement or if u want to just close the window wen u click it then its..


ok ppl i hope that helped y'all it definitely helped me lol
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Oh very nice glad to see you figured it out and maybe it will help many others now

oh that's fantastic! thanks dreamer7...it will def help others.

hahaha ...

yeah that 'null' thing works for a lot of things very well.

glad to see you managed, I know I had a hard time finding something,
yet knew it could be done.

I'd be interested in the whole code if you have it.

thanks,

that works great.

thanks a ton,
I saved it and it's a keeper.

umm...isn't this the whole code?

erm to close a window by clicking on it yes why u found a problem????