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Oct 11.2004

Hi all.

Here is what i want to do:

When i click on the “Enter” link on my websites welcome page, the link must open in a new window and the previous window must close itself. now getting a link to open in a new window is nothing to do but how do i get the previous page to close itself? So that when i hit enter, the new window appears and the old window closes.

I hope someone can help me out on this.

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@TageOct 11.2004 — It's not ever going to work the way you want. A good rule to remember (although maybe not accurate) is that you cannot close windows you didn't open. With that said, you can try closing the window with window.close()
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@javaNoobieOct 11.2004 — Do you mean that when you click 'Enter', you open up a new window and close the parent window(the window where u clicked 'Enter')? If so, you can try the following:
<i>
</i>window.open('page.htm','childWin','');
self.close();

NOTE: in IE they have a confirmation dialog on closing the parent window via script. If user clicks 'cancel', the parent window will not close. And you can't bypass that dialog box.
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@stonexauthorOct 11.2004 — Thanks for the help. I thought that the dialog box would still be a problem. I'll try another method for my site.
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