Click to Close

**Blank Verse** · March 24th, 2002, 04:40

I've got on my page the classic "click-the-image-to-close-the-browser-thingy". My problem is, when I click the image, it tells me this:

"the web page you are trying to visit is trying to close the window

do you want to close the window?"

See, now if I click OK, it'll close the window, no problem. But I don't want that prompt coming up, what do I do to prevent this?

This is the code:

<form>
<img src="close.jpg" onClick="window.close()">
</form>

any ideas?

**Bruce** · March 24th, 2002, 09:07

You can't close a window with javascript unless the window was opened with javascript.

If you try to, you'll see the message you posted. I don't know of any other work-arounds.

**Dusty** · March 24th, 2002, 10:29

It prompts if there's more than one location in the history. If you want to override the prompt, clear the window's history.

**meow** · March 24th, 2002, 13:09

Ha! That actually worked but only in Netscape. Never noticed that before.

**Dusty** · March 24th, 2002, 15:36

Ha! That actually worked

What, did you think I made it up?

**meow** · March 24th, 2002, 15:47

No, just surprized since I've never heard it before. The use is a little limited if it's only Netscape that handles it that way though.

**Blank Verse** · March 24th, 2002, 16:35

Originally posted by Bruce
You can't close a window with javascript unless the window was opened with javascript.

If you try to, you'll see the message you posted. I don't know of any other work-arounds.

Actually, this works out well, cause I'm going to have it open through javascript.

**meow** · March 24th, 2002, 17:20

Then what are you whining about?

**Blank Verse** · March 25th, 2002, 01:54

well, cause when I was testing it, I was just opening it through the URL, I hadn't tried opening it yet with the code I was gonna use to open the browser.