Close a child window from another window

[brain]

How can I close a child window from outside that window ?

[Eric.Coleman]

I suck with Javascript, But I believe you would have something like this


PARENT WINDOW :

_child = window.open();


Then, to close the child window, just use _child.close();

[beetle]

Best way is to make sure that you have assigned a variable name to the new window, and enact the close() method on that variable

var myWin = window.open('page.htm','','');
myWin.close();

[Eric.Coleman]

Sorta beat your post by ohh, say and HOUR! lol ;P

[beetle]

Originally posted by Zaire
Sorta beat your post by ohh, say and HOUR! lol ;P

True, but noticed I said "Best way". What if you had to open more than one popup and close them selectively, or wanted to open a new document in the existing popup. In both cases '_child' will not work.

[Eric.Coleman]

Hrm, your code looks no different than mine..

[beetle]

The difference is that I defined an object variable to reference the window, whereas you used the built-in target object of '_child' to reference the window.