I'm using a pop-up as an entry to o

StephanieCC · Aug 5, 2002

I'm using a pop-up as an entry to our in house website--so that if the user agrees to our rules clicking yes closes the opo-up and lets the user use the web; clicking no, should close the pop-up and the browser--I have the pop-up as a dependent and set the no button to parent.close and then window.close but it still only closes the pop-up-- any ideas?

http://www.provlib.org/untitled.htm

RISTMO · Aug 5, 2002

I have an idea.
First of all, people can use the web by simply ignoring the popup. Why don't you do a confirm box instead?

<html>
<head>
<script>
<!--
function check(){
if(!confirm("do you agree?&quot

){
//this could become annoying as it will always ask
//the user if he wants to close the browser.
//replace it with:
// return false;
// will might be better
self.close();
} else{
location.href="new_page.html";
}
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="check();" onUnLoad="check();">
</body>
</html>

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jemminger · Aug 6, 2002

StephanieCC,

ristmo2001's idea is good - also, you cannot close a window that was not opened via script without the user's permission. so, if you call "opener.close();" from your pop-up, the user will still be prompted with something like

"The web page you are viewing is attempting to close the browser. Do you want to allow this?"
======================================

if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

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