window.close() HEADACHE

[nathanp]

I'm having an issue with a simple javascript.

I have 5 html pages all the same except different videos embedded. Each page links to the other pages and all pages have this code:

<a href="javascript:window.close();">Close</a>

This works fine when the page first opens.

The problem is when from the first page you click on one of the links and it loads, then the "close" button doesn't function.

I'm not a developer and don't know much JS. Does anybody know what's going on here? It's driving me nuts.

Thanks in advance

Here's a link so you can see what I'm talking about:
www.aninconvenienttax.com/video1.html

[felgall]

See if this works better. JavaScript doesn't run properly from the href attribute.

<a href="#" onclick="window.close();return false;">Close</a>

[nathanp]

It doesn't seem to work

[toicontien]

It could be that when you click a link in the pop up window, and the page loads, the current page you are looking at didn't open the pop up window and browsers now prevent you from closing a window using JavaScript which JavaScript did not open.

[nathanp]

Yeah, the original page is opened from a flash ActionScript, getURL("http://......");

The thing is, when the page is first called by the AS the JS "close" works fine.

So how do you close a window not opened by JS?

[toicontien]

You can't.

[felgall]

If you want to close a window with JavaScript then you must open it from JavaScript.