close browser window with html?

[josh42]

I'm not sure if this is an html issue but here goes. This might be really simple, but is there a way to close a browser window by clicking on an image? How is this done? Thanks!

[Stephen Philbin]

No. You can't close a browser window with html. You can however close it with javascript.

something along the lines of

<img src="blah.png" alt="meh" onclick="window.close()"> 

Something like that anyway. I'm not to hot on the ol' javascript. I avoid using it as much as possible.

[josh42]

You're right, this closes the browser window. But before it closes a dialog box comes up asking you to confirm the close. How do you close the window without that annoying dialog box?

[Paul Jr]

Unless the window was opened by you with the window.open() method, you're out of luck.

[Ben Rogers]

Originally posted by josh42
You're right, this closes the browser window. But before it closes a dialog box comes up asking you to confirm the close. How do you close the window without that annoying dialog box?

Would you want your browser to randomly close? It has to ask, otherwise you would be stepping on the user's toes.