I know that theres the javascript <a href="javascript: self.close()"> but is there a way to reference a specific window so that you click on a link and it closes a different page?

Thanks!

i am really bad at javascript but try this...

<a href="javascript: MyExample.close();">

just replace that ^ part with the "name" of the window you created/opened.

if the window was not created and named, then you may be out of luck.

and uh... how do you name a window?

when you create a window, you can assign a name value to it...

window.open("URL","Name","parameters");

If you want to close the window that you just clicked a link to a popup from (do you understand?), you can use this, name it popup.html:


<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--;
function close_other_win() {
opener.close();
}
function change_other_win(url) {
opener.location=url;
}
//-->
</script>

<a href="javascript:close_other_win();">Close other window</a><br />
<a href="javascript:change_other_win('http://www.example.org/');">Change location of other window.</a>


name this thing.html:


<script>
window.open('popup.html','','width=500,height=500' );
</script>


Make sure they are in the same directory, they don't need to be online to work either :)

I tried that and it didn't work. I open thing.html and popup.html comes up, but neither link does anything. Really what I want to do is just change the location of the original page and close the popup.

Well, that seems to work on my computer, if you want it to close and redirect (put this in the popup):


<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--;
function do(redir) {
opener.location=redir;
window.close();
}
//-->
</script>

<a href="javascript:do('http://www.example.com');">Close and redirect.</a>


What browser do you have?

Actually the first one is working I don't know what the problem was but it's working now so thanks!

Okay, no problem, good luck ;)