button does not close window in Safari. Works for all other browsers

Question

I have an Entity Framework app that is working fine in IE, Edge, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox.

But this particular part is NOT working in Safari on a Mac Mini, Macbook, or iPad.

I have a web page to display my player statistics and I open it like this with the press of a button:

function ShowPlayerStats(playerId) {
  window.open("xServer/game/playerView.html?playerID=" + playerId, "Your Player Stats", "width=400,height=900");    
}

That little window that pops up, playerView.html has a button called Close. It is supposed to close the Window when the player is done looking.

It looks like this:

function closeStats() {
  console.log('closing stats window');
  self.close();
}

And is fired with this button:

<input type="button" id="statsClose" value="CLOSE" onclick="closeStats()" />

Now it works in all browsers except Safari for some reason.

In the Safari developer console, I do see thie message: "closing stats window" but the window is never closed.

How can I get this to work in Safari too?

Thanks!

Seems to be a known issue - Check out this one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10712923/998096 — Ofir Baruch, Jan 11 '21 at 19:45
@OfirBaruch thanks but that is from 8 years ago, I can't imagine something being broken for that long. — SkyeBoniwell, Jan 11 '21 at 19:46
@OfirBaruch unfortunately `window.close()` does not work either. — SkyeBoniwell, Jan 11 '21 at 20:03
@SkyeBoniwell, although the link is older but the last answer in it provide a solution. You may try to call window.close() directly onclick, excluding logging into console. — Khurram Ishaque, Mar 12 '21 at 10:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '22 at 12:47

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if you are using self.close() to close opened browser from ios mobile app using window.open() function it will not work, you can use history.go(-(window.history.length - 1)) to close the open window. :)

answered Aug 20 '22 at 12:47

button does not close window in Safari. Works for all other browsers

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