[Link that close current window]

[Arne Ballay]

Hi,
I'm using JavaScript in a JSP where build up dynamik links (<a href...).
These links are shown on the current JSP page. We someone clicks the
Link another page changes (load the current URL).
Now I also want to close the current JSP. When I add
onClick="window.close();"
to one of my links the window closes, but the other page doesn't change.
Does anybody have a suggestion how to change the other page and also
close the current window?
Thanks in advance.
Arne

[Andrew Thompson]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:12:01 +0100, Arne Ballay wrote:

I'm using JavaScript in a JSP where build up dynamik links (<a href...).
These links are shown on the current JSP page. We someone clicks the
Link another page changes (load the current URL).
Now I also want to close the current JSP. When I add
onClick="window.close();"
to one of my links the window closes, but the other page doesn't change.
Does anybody have a suggestion how to change the other page and also
close the current window?

Is this web-app for an intranet with a controlled environnent,
or the internet? If it is the internet, and this is a 'business
critical' app. ('Click here to purchase'), I might offer you two
pieces of advice.

1) Don't use pop-ups, they are going the way of the Do Do's.
2) Don't use JS for links (or ay least make the app. navigable
for non-JS clients)

Search the archives of this group, and it's FAQ, and some of
the web-design groups for much (much) more on both.

[ Oh, and uses also find it pretty irritating to have windows
disappear on them 'mysteriously', which might be a good reason
to reconsider it - even for an intranet app. ]

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