Is there anyother way of closing a window?

[littlejim84]

A friend of mine is developing a web site, and at the moment he is using the usual window.close() me-larky to close a pop up window... But in Internet Explorer it comes up with a warning about 'this is trying to close the window' or something like that... Is there anyway around this, so this IE error message doesn't appear?

Many thanks for any input.

[gRoberts]

instead of window.close(); use

var self = this;
self.close();

[felgall]

The warning only comes up if you try to close a window you didn't open. Other browsers wont produce the warning and will just ignore the code instead.

JavaScript can only close a window that was opened using a JavaScript window.open() call.