search for and close all child windows thru parent window

[zybernau]

hi, all

in javascript
i need to close all the child windows[popup windows] that i have opened through a parent window

scenario:

* here i will be having as many as child window opened and name given to the child window can not be tracked because each will be having a different name, and
* i am using 70 to 80 popup windows [doing seperate operations] through out my page [parent window]
* there can be any number of child windows opened , at the time of user triGgers the event from the parent window to close all the child window that i have opened so far [currently opened child windows]

Thanks in advance

- rajamohan

[iam_clint]

you need to open the windows in an array or something



popup[0] = window.open(yadda);
popup[1] = window.open(yadda);
popup[2] = window.open(yadda);
popup[3] = window.open(yadda);

then you can do something like

for (i=0; i<=popup.length; i++) {
popup[i].close();
}

[iam_clint]

 
<script>
var pop = new Array();
function openwins() {
pop[0] = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'test');
pop[1] = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'test1');
pop[2] = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'test2');
pop[3] = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'test3');
pop[4] = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'test4');
}
function closewins() {
for (i=0; i<pop.length; i++) {
pop[i].close();
}
}
</script>
<input type="button" onclick="openwins();" value="Open PopUps">
<input type="button" onclick="closewins();" value="Close PopUps">
 

example.

[zybernau]

hi all,

i am having a parent window,
for that many child windows are being opened.
i am having a reference for all the windows which are being opened in javascript as a array variable
[so i am free to close all the windows that are refrenced when needed]

, here for a functionality in my application , i am refershing the page for every 500 secs.

so here the windows opened before 500 secs losts there references in the javascript, so i have no handle to close those windows.
question no 1: is there any way close those orphan windows?

question no 2: is there any way to search for the internet explorer windows which are open and look for the specific parameter in that window and then closing the window[which are orphan]?

please help!!!

Thanks,
Raj.

[acoder]

I've merged this with an older thread.

Are you sure you need to refresh the whole page? Can you not refresh a part of the page instead to avoid losing references to the child windows?

[zybernau]

I've merged this with an older thread.

Are you sure you need to refresh the whole page? Can you not refresh a part of the page instead to avoid losing references to the child windows?

Thanks acoder for merging, and Yes i need to refresh the whole page, because i am extending the application and not creating a new, my change should not affect others flow

is there any other way of doing this[with out having a seperate frame/iframe]

Thanks once again,
Raj

[acoder]

Once you refresh the window, I think the references to the child windows will be lost. What exactly requires the page to refreshed every half second? Perhaps there is an alternative you haven't thought of.