How to: !window.focus then window.close 1

toughGirl · Sep 29, 2001

i have this script and it doesn't work. Can someone tell me how to write the code to close the window if it's not in focus?

var newWindow = null
function makeNewWin(){
newWindow = window.open("

http://home.earthlink.net/~toughgirl2/instructions.html",

"popup", "height=300, width=200&quot

if (!newWindow.focus){
self.close()
}
}

You can go to

http://home.earthlink.net/~lmartin820/ny/pages/001.htm#

and press on the [instructions] link at the bottom.

thanks tG
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mackey333 · Sep 29, 2001

well what your code is saying is this -

open a new window, then if the new window does not have focus, close the parent window

so your logic is wrong and also the line that checks focus is only runs when the function is called, it is not run agian after the first pass...you need to close the window from the popup like this:

first between the <head> tags put

<script language="javascript">

function closeWin() {
if(window.blur) {
window.opener.focus();
window.close();
}
}

</script>

then inside the body tag put

onBlur="closeWin()"

-Greg :-Q

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