07-19-2010, 07:57 AM

Hi............
The problem is using Safari in Mac Oprating System.I am unable to Close Window using java script window.close() or self.close().I'm using the following code line, which is working fine with all browser of Window OS.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
self.focus();
setTimeout("self.close();",1);
//-->
</script>

and

<a href="javascript:window.close();">Close this window</a></span>

Any help most appreciated.

Mohan Reddy

07-19-2010, 08:03 AM

You can only close a window with JS if you opened it with JS. How are you opening the window?

See the following:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forum...mac-close.html
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=56352

EDIT: Apparently, I am wrong. Just tried it here and it works with some browsers (Opera and Safari) but not others (Chromium). Will get back to you.

07-19-2010, 08:43 AM

Vansmith, as far as I am aware you are correct. That is what I have always been told, but some browsers ignore this and it does work.

07-19-2010, 10:18 AM

I'm not at my Mac right now so you'll have to test this yourself with other browsers. I only say that you'll have to test this because it works fine for me in Safari here (Windows) while it doesn't for you. Does this work in other browsers?

07-19-2010, 10:23 AM

On my mac:

Chrome, dosnt work
Firefox, dosnt work
Safari 4, dosnt work
Safari 5, DOES work

You CAN close a FireFox window/tab even if your script didn't open it Try this.

07-19-2010, 10:27 AM

Works in Opera 10.70 (dev build) on Windows. Mohan, do you have any source we can take a look at? It would make solving this much easier.