Availability
JavaScript 1.0
Synopsis
window.close( )Description
The close( ) method
closes the top-level browser window specified by
window. A window can close itself by
calling self.close( ) or simply close(
).
In JavaScript 1.1, only windows opened by JavaScript can be closed by
JavaScript. This prevents malicious scripts from causing the
user's browser to exit.
There is no meaningful way to close a frame within a window. Thus,
the close( ) method should be invoked only for
Window objects that represent top-level browser windows, not for
those that represent frames.
See Also
Window.open( ), the closed and
opener properties of Window