Window: close() method
The Window.close()
method closes the current window, or
the window on which it was called.
This method can only be called on windows that were opened by a script using the
Window.open()
method, or on top-level windows that have a single history entry. If the window doesn't match these requirements, an error
similar to this one appears in the console:
Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script.
Note also that close()
has no effect when called on Window
objects returned by
HTMLIFrameElement.contentWindow
.
Syntax
js
close()
Parameters
None.
Return value
None (undefined
).
Examples
Closing a window opened with window.open()
This example shows a method which opens a window and a second one which closes the
window; this demonstrates how to use Window.close()
to close a window
opened by calling window.open()
.
js
//Global variable to store a reference to the opened window
let openedWindow;
function openWindow() {
openedWindow = window.open("moreinfo.htm");
}
function closeOpenedWindow() {
openedWindow.close();
}
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-window-close-dev |
Browser compatibility
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