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manikandan S
manikandan S

Reputation: 53

window.close(); not working in firefox

After clicking close button current window is not closing in Firefox but its working fine in IE 

function closeWin() {
    var d=window.opener;
    try {
        var param="";
        var winHref=d.document.location.href;
        if(winHref.indexOf("?") > -1){
    	    param=winHref.substr(winHref.indexOf("?"));
        }
        //d.document.location.href=d.document.forms[0].thankyouurl.value+'?'+param;
        d.document.location.href=d.document.getElementsByName('thankyouurl')[0].value+'?'+param;
    }
    catch(e){}
    finally{}
    window.close();
    return true;
}
<input type="button" name="Button" value="Close" onClick="return closeWin();">

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10485

Answers (1)

Starfish
Starfish

Reputation: 3574

You can't close the page with window.close() in Firefox unless it is opened by a script. So you'll have to trick Firefox in thinking you opened it with a script. This would work:

function closeWindow() { 
  window.open('','_parent',''); 
  window.close(); 
}

Now just call the closeWindow() whenever you want the window to close. This works in other browsers too.

Upvotes: 5

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