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Html javascript to open new window and close current window

rated 0 times [ 114] [ 2] / answers: 1 / hits: 50245 / 14 Years ago, thu, september 9, 2010, 12:00:00

I have a popup window and in that page I have the following code in the body.

<a href=http://www.example.com target=_blank onClick=javascript:window.close()><img src=...something/></a>

The purpose is to have this popup window close when a user clicks on the image link, and to open a new page and be directed to http://www.example.com.

It works in IE and Chrome, but not in Firefox. The popup window closes but no new window is opened.

Any ideas?

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answered 14 Years ago anniejulietteb · Accepted Answer

Yes, I can repro this - interesting. setTimeout works around it:

onClick=javascript: setTimeout(window.close, 10);

I can only guess that once the window closes (which happens before the hyperlink is followed) Firefox stops processing that page.

Edit: better make it 10ms delay - with 1ms Chrome doesn't close the window.