Redirect & then Timeout together??

**glengates** · 04-05-2011 04:05 PM

Hi All,

I have a problem that I hope someone can solve for me as I am new to HTML.

I need a website that im building to have links to certain sites. I also need these links to open in a new window and then timeout and close after 2 minutes.

I do not control the target sites so tried to perform this link via the following code:

Code:

<HTML><HEAD>
<title>Title</title>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=Target Website.html">
</head>
<script language="JavaScript"> 
window.setTimeout("self.close()", 120000); 
</script>
</HTML>

The redirect works fine and I know that the self close works also, however I cannot seem to make the 2 work together.

Does the redirect to the new website render the self close script uesless or is there any way to make the 2 work together?

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Glen

**WolfShade** · 04-05-2011 04:31 PM

How are you opening the pop up? The pop up needs the setTimeout/self.close(). If you are opening the pop up by setting it to a variable, then you could close the child from the parent.

**glengates** · 04-05-2011 05:22 PM

Hi Wolfshade,

The pop up has the enclosed timeout code in it. I am presuming that the redirect code over-rides the timeout script. Would that be why this doesnt work for me?

How do I go about finding how to command the selfclose from the parent window?

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