Re: Opening and closing windows

Cyanide_7, (or may I call you Cy?)

Thanks for the tip, window.opener.win2.close(); works beautifully.

Francis.

> ----------
> > From: "Cyanide _7" <leo7278(at)hotmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:15:14 CDT
> > To: francis_mariani(at)hotmail.com
> > Cc: hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
> > Subject: Re: Fw: Opening and closing windows
> >
> > there are two ways of doing this. you can obtain a reference to any
window
> > by its target or name. these can be set from the actual window object or
> > while creating a new window:
> >
> > window.name = "foobar";
> > window.open("somefile.html","foobar","");
> >
> > and the reference can be caught with the window.open method:
> >
> > var myWin = window.open('',"foobar");
> >
> > also, the window.open method returns the window object of the window
just
> > created and can be caught by a varible:
> >
> > var myWin = window.open("somefile.html","foobar");
> >
> > in addition, each opened window has the opener property, which is a
> > reference to the window that just opened it. you can either capture a
> > reference to Window2 from Window3 and immediately call the close method
from
> > the returned object:
> >
> > // in Window3
> > window.open('',"Window2").close();
> >
> > where Window2 was created with the name "Window2". or you can go through
the
> > opener object:
> >
> > // in Window3
> > window.opener.win2.close();
> >
> > where Window2 was stored as a property *win2* of the openers window
object:
> >
> > // in Window1
> > window.win2 = window.open("somefile.html","Window2");
> >
> > hope this helps. - Cyanide_7
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I would like to know how to reference a particular window in
JavaScript.
> >>
> >> I have Window 1 that opens Window2 and Window3. From Window3 I would
like
> >> to
> >> close Window2.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Francis.
> >>
> >> PS: I'm sorry if this seems like a simpleton question!
> >>
> >>
> >
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