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How do I make sure that an automatically closed window closes all its spawned windows as well?

Answer 1

+1 A:

Keep track of the window names you open the popups with.

Have a page that purely does a window.close()

When you would do a normal window.close(), make sure you do a window.open("our close page", windowNameIStored) for each of the popup windows.

This is a fix I submitted downstream to a vendor of ours and works quite well.

Dan McGrath 2009-11-12 23:07:26

Answer 2

A:

Stop using pop-ups, this isn't 1998 :)

Seriously, though with all of the built-in browser functionality and 3rd party apps which also block them, they've become pretty much unreliable. Are you 100% sure the pop-up opened? You'll have to test to make sure, but then maybe a 3rd party app closed it after your test finished, who knows, so now the customer is having a bad experience. If they're actually paying customers, your client could be losing money. Sure, you can put a message which says "turn off your pop-up blocker", but honestly how many users actually know how to do that?

Every time I'm asked to do a pop-up, I just stare at whoever requested it like they are speaking some other language, then ask if it is 1998. Pop-ups are the result of one or more of the following: bad User Interface design, ignorant managers, and/or sloppy/lazy development. Though I'm sure there are other reasons.

Just my 2-cents.

paulj 2009-11-12 23:22:49

In this context though, a popup makes sense - at least when the user is coming to our site through automatic logon. They don't want to be routed out of their original session, just logged onto ours as well.Also this isn't an answer to the question and would have been better as a comment, just FYI

Schnapple 2009-11-12 23:43:43

I agree partially... If the end-user is in something like extranet, it may be appropriate to open a new window for something outside the extranet. Using pop-ups for things like "help" sections, which he describes is what I was referring to as bad.

paulj 2009-11-13 16:27:20

Answer 3

+2 A:

<html>
<head>
<script>
var childwindows=new Array();
function openchild(){
    var childW=window.open('in.html');
    childwindows[childwindows.length]=childW;
}

function closewindow(){
    for(i in childwindows){
     if(childwindows[i] && !childwindows[i].closed) {childwindows[i].closewindow();}
    }
    window.close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br/>
<a onclick="openchild();">open child window</a>
<br/><br/>
<a onclick="closewindow();">close me</a>
</body>
</html>

vsr 2009-11-13 01:00:34

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