window.close(); is not working in the latest Chrome Browser. is there any alternative?

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Emani Parida

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Sep 13, 2016, 1:30:42 AM9/13/16
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window.close(); is not working in the latest Chrome Browser. is there any alternative?

PhistucK

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Sep 13, 2016, 7:34:52 AM9/13/16
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It should work, can you provide a URL with a simple test page that shows it does not work?


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window.close(); is not working in the latest Chrome Browser. is there any alternative?

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Emani Parida

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Sep 14, 2016, 12:13:09 AM9/14/16
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here is my sample project.

The window.close(); is in CloseDiv.aspx
WebSite1.rar

PhistucK

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Sep 14, 2016, 1:50:33 AM9/14/16
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Most of the Chrome team does not have Visual Studio (or .NET Core or Mono or whatever) and cannot run ASPX files. Please, share a URL instead.


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Emani Parida

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Sep 14, 2016, 2:11:46 AM9/14/16
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I have created the project for internal purpose.

PhistucK

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Sep 14, 2016, 2:14:10 AM9/14/16
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No one has access to your localhost, this is a local URL.​


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Emani Parida

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Sep 14, 2016, 2:56:02 AM9/14/16
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then publish that project in IIS ,and try to access it.

PhistucK

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Sep 14, 2016, 2:57:38 AM9/14/16
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Yeah, no IIS here.


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Emani Parida

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Sep 14, 2016, 3:17:11 AM9/14/16
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then enable IIS . 

PhistucK

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Sep 14, 2016, 3:33:33 AM9/14/16
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​Why do you assume I use Windows?​

This group is trying to help you figure out your issue (since close() works for me in the simple case of creating a popup and then closing it using close()), so you need to provide a URL to a working (well, failing) test case if you want our help. JSFiddle, CodePen and plckr are good places for hacking up a test case.

You should not expect that people will install operating systems or servers in order to reproduce your issue...


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Emani Parida

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Sep 14, 2016, 4:54:25 AM9/14/16
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Thanks. 

I have another alternative.

please check the JSFiddle   https://jsfiddle.net/qn9s8xmh/2/

Please create a html file and paste this code.
Then open that in IE and chrome.

PhistucK

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Sep 14, 2016, 6:46:03 AM9/14/16
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plckr lets you serve individual files, so you might want to share a plckr instead. This way you only give a URL and it is enough.


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Emani Parida

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Sep 14, 2016, 7:12:33 AM9/14/16
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just a simple script .

Is this working in your environment?

Please create a html page and paste this script 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
    <title></title>
  

</head>
<body>
     <input id="Button1" type="button" value="button" onclick="window.close();" />
</body>
</html>

and run it with IE and chrome.

Hari krishna

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Sep 14, 2016, 7:24:28 AM9/14/16
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Hi Emani,

I think you can't close the browser window if that is what you intend to do. You can close the window which are opened by your scripts (See the example code here). 
If you have a script that opens window, share that script instead.


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then enable IIS . 

Yeah, no IIS here.


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Subhra jyoti Pradhan

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Sep 14, 2016, 7:29:26 AM9/14/16
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First write code open the window and then apply window.close() to close it.

<button onclick="openWin()">Open "myWindow"</button>
 <button onclick="closeWin()">Close "myWindow"</button>

 <script>
        var myWindow;

        function openWin() {
            myWindow = window.open("", "myWindow", "width=200,height=200");
            myWindow.document.write("<p>This is 'Window'</p>");
        }

        function closeWin() {
            myWindow.close();
        }
</script>

PhistucK

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Sep 14, 2016, 7:40:24 AM9/14/16
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Correct. Chrome never (intentionally, anyway) allowed windows that were not open by a script to be closed by a script.
If you had a different experience with Chrome, that was a bug, though I doubt that ever worked.


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Sidney San Martín

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Sep 14, 2016, 7:50:41 AM9/14/16
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I also think this is the issue. You can confirm by opening the console on the failing page, and you should see a warning if you weren't allowed to close it for this reason:



A page is generally allowed to close itself if it was opened by another page with window.open() or <a href="…" target="_blank">:



For window.open(), JavaScript on the original page is also allowed to close the window it opened:



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