Accessing the window object - problems with Internet Explorer

[Sal]

I wonder if anyone has had problems with the above recently and has managed to solve them.

I have opened a new window using window.open which performs as would be expected in both IE and Firefox, but when I then want to close the window using window.close, IE just throws an error message "Permission denied".

On further investigation I found that IE threw out this message with window.focus() and window.name even though this did not cause a problem in Firefox.

Any ideas would be very gratefully received.

Function is shown below for further information (NewWin being the url of the .pdf I wish to open):

function F_OpenPDFWindow(NewWin)
{
    if(PDF_PopUp!=undefined)
    {
        PDF_PopUp.close();
    }
    var PageContent=NewWin;
    PDF_PopUp = window.open(PageContent, "pdfWindow","width=750,left=30,top=40,scrollbars");
}
 

[iam_clint]

function closewin() {
window.open('','_parent','');
win = top;
win.opener = top;
window.close();
}
 

use this code in the popup window itself then call the function when you want it to close. This code will close the window without confirmation.

[Sal]

function closewin() {
window.open('','_parent','');
win = top;
win.opener = top;
window.close();
}
 

use this code in the popup window itself then call the function when you want it to close. This code will close the window without confirmation.

Thanks for this, I will give it a try and report back.

Sal