OnLoad="window.opener.close();"???

[TheJoshMan]

I have a pop up that has a media player in it... and i can get it to open fine... but what i am wanting is for it to close the parent window when it loads without having to click on a link... and also without asking the user if they want to close the parent window. Right now i'm using...


<a href="javascript:opener.close();">Close Previous Window</a>

Is this possible to put inside of the body tag like an onload function? I'm not getting it... Any help would be appreciated.

[TheJoshMan]

Nevermind... I got it. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was... In case anyone else may ever be wondering how to do it here is the code...


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
window.open("Muzik.html","newWindow","menubar=no,resizable=no,dependent,status=no,width=350,HEIGHT=390,left=620");
window.opener = top;
window.close();
</SCRIPT>

That goes inside the head of the parent window... then this goes in the body tag of the parent window...


onload="newWindow()"

[Twey]

If I were you, I'd do it from the parent:
<a href="mediaplayer.html" onclick="window.open('mediaplayer.html');window.close();return false;" target="newwindow">Click</a>

[TheJoshMan]

If I were you, I'd do it from the parent:

Well, I would... but this is for a page on myspace and myspace doesn't allow javascript so I had to use a sort of "Transition" page when they clicked on a link. Thanks anyway though.

[sleipner]

what? Twey isnt going to say something about how language is deprecated and to use type instead? (the irony of it is, I just got done reading a thread with a post saying language is deprecated, and to use type instead)

[Twey]

Because I advised removing the whole tag. I guess I probably should have mentioned it anyway for information purposes. :)

Nyne: the language attribute is deprecated. Use type instead:
<script type="text/javascript">

[TheJoshMan]

You mean to tell me that by changing the Language attribute to Type I can use it on MySpace????

[Twey]

Afraid not. Just for future reference as applied to <script> tags. :)

[TheJoshMan]

I guess I misunderstood what you were trying to say. Thanks though.