Close parent window from a frame without Java

[frank griffin webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I want to use a hyperlink to close the parent window (and all frames it contains) without using java. I don't want the pop-up window appearing that using "javascript:parent.close()" causes. Any ideas?

Thanks
Frank

[frank griffin webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Yes, I meant Javascript not Java. :>)

I have found that I can close the current frame without javascript but I can't seem to close the parent. I hate that little popup! Is there a way to "null" it?

Thanks
Frank

[Murray *TMM*]

frank:

It's a system message. You will not get it on windows that *you* open
programatically, but without javascript, there is no way that I know of to
eliminate it on pages that you have not opened.

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"frank griffin" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I meant Javascript not Java. :>)
>
> I have found that I can close the current frame without javascript but I

can't seem to close the parent. I hate that little popup! Is there a way to
"null" it?

>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>

[Gary White]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:14:01 +0000 (UTC), "frank griffin"
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

>I have found that I can close the current frame without javascript
>but I can't seem to close the parent. I hate that little popup! Is
>there a way to "null" it?

Not if you didn't open it and it would be extremely rude to do so.
Think of the poor sap who finds your site via a search engine and,
when he arrives, you open your custom window, close his original
window and your site isn't what he was looking for. Now he's stuck in
your popup. Extremely rude.


Gary

[Thierry Koblentz]

You can use JS and trick the window to avoid that alert box.
Try this:
opener.opener = top;
opener.close();

Won't work with all the browsers though...

Check on [url]www.macromedia.com[/url] you'll find the original script.

HTH,

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"frank griffin" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I meant Javascript not Java. :>)
>
> I have found that I can close the current frame without javascript but I

can't seem to close the parent. I hate that little popup! Is there a way to
"null" it?

>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>

[Gary White]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:41:50 -0700, "Thierry Koblentz"
<thierry@remove.212Utah.com> wrote:

>You can use JS and trick the window to avoid that alert box.
>Try this:
>opener.opener = top;
>opener.close();

And if someone did that to me, I'd wish I had the knowledge to hack
into their site and deface it. or at least remove the obnoxious
script. <sigh>


Gary

[Murray *TMM*]

Of course, that's not the answer because the question was how to do it
without 'Java'. I guess the answer is that there is no way to do so, no?

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"Thierry Koblentz" <thierry@remove.212Utah.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Gary,
> I totally agree with you but on the other hand I think it's good to give

the

> answer with the advice.
> Going the other way, we'll soon stop posting scripts to open fullscreen,
> resize windows, create frames, etc.
> ;ç)
>
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> "Gary White" <reply@newsgroup.please> wrote in message
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> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:41:50 -0700, "Thierry Koblentz"
> > <thierry@remove.212Utah.com> wrote:
> >

> > >You can use JS and trick the window to avoid that alert box.
> > >Try this:
> > >opener.opener = top;
> > >opener.close();

> >
> > And if someone did that to me, I'd wish I had the knowledge to hack
> > into their site and deface it. or at least remove the obnoxious
> > script. <sigh>
> >
> >
> > Gary

>
>

[Gary White]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:46:16 -0700, "Thierry Koblentz"
<thierry@remove.212Utah.com> wrote:

>I totally agree with you but on the other hand I think it's good to give the
>answer with the advice.

You're probably right. And with my limited skills, the worst I could
do when encountering something like that would be to write a complaint
to the site owner. <sigh>

>Going the other way, we'll soon stop posting scripts to open fullscreen,
>resize windows, create frames, etc.

Hmmm... and the problem with that? <gg>


Gary