Close all popup windows javascript

Tagged as ASP. Stats JavaScript to close child windows. Goodwin Rate me:. Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to close open child windows when parent window is closed, using JavaScript. Download source code - 0. The Objective Being object oriented in nature, I wanted a drop in solution on the client side to achieve closing child windows.

The Code Persisting Window Handles The first thing, persist the window object returned by the open function call. Copy Code. Goodwin Software Developer. Ah, just another dev living the life of Dilbert. Member 7-Nov Greg Bergeron 4-Aug Sandeep Mewara Mar Edwill Leighton Jun Goodwin Sep Go to top. Layout: fixed fluid. Article Copyright by MCF. Software Developer.

United States. First Prev Next. When I run your code, no popup window is closed when I close the main browser Member May Member I downloaded your windowController. So, popups is not something we use everyday. Still, there are tasks where popups are still used, e. In the past, evil sites abused popups a lot. A bad page could open tons of popup windows with ads. So now most browsers try to block popups and protect the user. Most browsers block popups if they are called outside of user-triggered event handlers like onclick.

This way users are somewhat protected from unwanted popups, but the functionality is not disabled totally. What if the popup opens from onclick , but after setTimeout? So the first one is blocked, and the second one is not. There is also a number of less supported browser-specific features, which are usually not used. Check window. Run it and see what really happens. The open call returns a reference to the new window.

Please note: immediately after window. So we wait for onload to modify it. Otherwise, e. For the details, see chapter Cross-window communication. This is a function that is built into Internet Explorer and cannot be overridden. Netscape 6. The user must click on the pop up window's close button otherwise the window will just submarine and stay open on the taskbar.

In order for a pop up window to be closed, a JavaScript close function of some sort must be inserted into the open popup window's HTML. In other words, to be able to control the function of a popup window you must open an HTML document another web page , only then will you have access to the HEAD and BODY of the document in which to place your close scripts.

Here is the same photo placed within an HTML document with 3 close scripts ; an auto close script, a click within window to close script, and a click on text link script these three close scripts are explained in the various pop up examples used above. The JavaScript function to close a window is window.