close child window on Netscape

liunx · Jan 9, 2008

Hello, 
 
How do I close child windows on Netscape? I can use onUnload on IE but it doesn't work for Netscape. 
 
Thanks, 
Katherinehmmmmnn.....I use onUnload and it works in IE and netscape. Can you post a url for us to have a look at? Or post your code. Here is my code for closing a window onUnlad, in both IE and N4.7 
 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Untitled</title> 
<script language ="javascript"> 
function pop_up(){ 
win = window.open("http://www.yahoo.com", "dep", "height=1,width=1", hotkeys="no"); 
} 
function closeDep() { 
if (win && win.parent && !win.closed) win.close(); 
} 
</script> 
</head> 
<body onUnload="closeDep();"> 
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"#" onclick="pop_up();">Yahoo</a> 
</body> 
</html><a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"javascript:void(0);" onClick="window.close()">hjhjh</A>Sorry about that. Yes onUnload is working for Netscape as well. 
 
How do I close childwindows when the browser is closed? 
 
Thanks, 
KathKatherine, 
The code I posted above does exactly what you want. Open a new browser window with that code running, then press the link to open a new 'child' window. Then close the PARENT window, and you'll see the child close as well.Is there a way to close all child windows at once versus naming each and closing windows one at a time? 
 
Thanks, 
KathI have a jsp which opens childwindows. After I close the child window (eg. cancel button) I can't open those child windows again? 
1. how do I reset child window var (see childA below)? 
2. is there a way to close all windows without managing them one by one (eg, via child window var for each child window)? 
3. is this the best way to do this? Code gets repetitive .... 
 
----- Here's what I used to do this ... ----- 
 
<body onUnload=closeChildWindows();> 
... 
 
<input type="button" OnClick=OpenWindowA();> 
 
... 
 
<script language="JavaScript"> 
var childA; 
 
function OpenWindowA() 
{ 
if (childA==null) 
// window doesn't exist yet 
childA = window.open("nextpage.jsp?"); 
else 
// don't open another window just bring to forefront the previous one opened. 
childA.focus(); 
} 
 
function closeChildWindows() 
{ 
if (childA != null) 
childA.close(); 
} 
</script> 
 
</body> 
 
---- end 
 
Thanks, 
KathActually, I added this to allow for reopening windows: 
 
function OpenWindowA() 
{ 
if ((childA==null) || (childA.closed)) 
... 
} 
 
 
Thanks for all your feedback! 
KathKatherine, 
Though I don't know JSP, I have worked alongside it. The best bet here, would be to call a JavaScripot function from the main webpage that is displayed, and this functioon should spawn the child windows. In this manner, you need not bother resetting anything. I am not sure why you would need so many child windows....but to close them all you could just name them in an array fashion. The just include a loop inside your close child function to look for the length of the array, and loop that many times closing any child windows open. 
 
This too seems like a hassle. What kind of app are you building that requires so many new windows?

close child window on Netscape

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