How to close a window using jQuery for all browser compatibility?
<input type="button"
name="backButton"
value="Close"
style="background-color:#245f91; color:#fff;font-weight:bold;"
onclick="window.close();">
This onclick event is working in IE. Could you help me to write code in jQuery?
$(element).click(function(){
window.close();
});
Note: you can not close any window that you didn't opened with window.open. Directly invoking window.close() will ask user with a dialogue box.
just window.close() is OK, why should write in jQuery?
You can only use the window.close function when you have opened the window using window.open(), so I use the following function:
function close_window(url){
var newWindow = window.open('', '_self', ''); //open the current window
window.close(url);
}
For IE: window.close(); and self.close(); should work fine.
If you want just open the IE browser and type
javascript:self.close() and hit enter, it should ask you for a prompt.
Note: this method doesn't work for Chrome or Firefox.
This will only work for windows which are opened by using window.open(); method. Try this
var tmp=window.open(params);
tmp.close();
