I'd like to provide a button on my child page that would close the child page from the child page itself. To make matters worse, I didn't write the child page - it is written using frames. So far I've tried this code in the child page:

Window.opener.location= '/parent page.html';
Window.close();

And, in the body:

<a href="JavaScript:if(confirm('close window?')) window.close()">close</a>

HELP!

I'd like to provide a button on my child page that would close the child page from the child page itself. To make matters worse, I didn't write the child page - it is written using frames. So far I've tried this code in the child page:

Window.opener.location= '/parent page.html';
Window.close();

And, in the body:

<a href="JavaScript:if(confirm('close window?')) window.close()">close</a>

HELP!

• javascript

• If it helps, the child page was created by google picasa. I'm able to get the word "close" to appear on the page, and the pop up window appears to confirm if I want to close the window, but nothing happens when I click "yes" – user1609616 Commented Aug 19, 2012 at 5:58
• 1 You can close only those pages that were opened via Javascript. – Nivas Commented Aug 19, 2012 at 6:41

2 Answers 2

As the link you inserted is inside an iframe, use window.top.close() instead of window.close(). window.top will refer to child window you created.

HTML for your hyperlink will be

<a href="javascript: if(confirm('close window')) {window.top.opener.location ='/auctioneer notes 8_22_12.html';window.top.close();}">close window</a>

This is cheating, but by refreshing the parent window the child window gets closed. Not very elegant but it works.

<form METHOD=post><p align=right><input TYPE="button" VALUE="Close This Window"onClick="window.parent.location.reload();"></p></form>