Can't close a window in html or JS

How can I close a "child" window opened from a "main" window in html or JS without resorting to asking the user to close the "child" browser window? I think I have tried just about everything. I have tried opening the "child" window by an tag and with JS. I can get the "child" window to open but cannot seem to return to the unchanged "main" page. I know I must be doing something wrong.

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Oct 11, 2009 5:00 AM

18 replies

Oct 11, 2009 6:26 PM in response to Douglas McKibbin

Doug,

Here's one I cleaned up.

http://files.me.com/dlivesay/dmreb9

Let me know if the link doesn't work. I haven't used it for this in a while.

Oct 11, 2009 6:29 PM in response to Douglas McKibbin

Oh, stop. It didn't take that long once I started looking at it.

If you haven't tried it yet, turn on your Develop menu in Safari and use the Web Inspector to look at these pages. It's a good way to learn about DOM structure, and you can spot problems really fast.

Oct 12, 2009 12:19 AM in response to David Livesay

The top.close was necessary because the original

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