Close own tab after confirm accepted in Js

Asked Jun 01 '16 at 21:02

Active Jun 01 '16 at 21:13

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I have a confirm() method that launches in the opening of a page. I want this page to be closed if the OK option is selected... Is there a solution ?

I've read that you can't close window that were not created by a script is it absolute truce ?

In my idea it were something like that :

if (confirm("Leave")) {
    close();
}

But it does not work and this is the console output :

Scripts may close only the windows that were opened by it.

edited Jun 01 '16 at 21:13

asked Jun 01 '16 at 21:02

Baldráni

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Didn't you even try it? – vp_arth Jun 01 '16 at 21:09
be more specific window.close(); – Yehia Awad Jun 01 '16 at 21:09
I tried both ofc but as I've said it seems that it is not possible to close a tab like this. – Baldráni Jun 01 '16 at 21:10
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_close.asp – Jun 01 '16 at 21:12
@E.Maggini It would have worked if it was that simple I will repeat my self : This does not work if the window hasn't been created by script – Baldráni Jun 01 '16 at 21:13
not a repeat if you made the edit after my comment, my friend. ;-) – Jun 01 '16 at 21:14
@YehiaAwad the natural behaviour if no "window" specified is to select the tab/window you are in – Baldráni Jun 01 '16 at 21:14
@E.Maggini It was in the original post look the edit log – Baldráni Jun 01 '16 at 21:15
What browser? Are you run it from some `userscript`? – vp_arth Jun 01 '16 at 21:15
And then there's this close from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2076299/how-to-close-current-tab-in-a-browser-window which seems to say you can open a new window in self and then immediately close it – Jun 01 '16 at 21:18
@vp_arth ho yeah perfect I haven't seen that post before. Thank you ! – Baldráni Jun 01 '16 at 21:19
@E.Maggini I invite you to read the post vp_arth just post before. Ty for trying anyway :) – Baldráni Jun 01 '16 at 21:20
Not the same post...but ....shrug..see ya around. – Jun 01 '16 at 21:22

Close own tab after confirm accepted in Js

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