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glendacom

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Oct 23, 2002
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I am trying to open/close a child window from a mother window. Here is the code in the mother window:

<html><head><body>
<a href=&quot;#top&quot; onClick=&quot;window.open('some.jpg','childWindow','dependent=0')&quot;>child is born</a>
<br>
<a href=&quot;javascript:childWindow.close();&quot;>child dies</a>
<br>
</body></head></html>

When I click &quot;child is born&quot; the window opens. When I click &quot;child dies&quot; I get an error saying that childWindow is not defined.

I'm using IE 6.0

I'm sure the problem is something obvious but it is Friday after a 60+ hour week and I'm getting to old to work such hours and I'm very tired. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Glenda
 
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try window.close('childwindow')

if that doesnt work use &quot; instead of ' I can never remember when to use which one (kinda makes it hard sometimes) [soapbox]
sleep is good
 
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Nope ... window.close('childwindow') simply tries to close the mother window ... window.close(&quot;childwindow&quot;) gives me a syntax error message .... anyone got any other ideas?
 
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Try this, I think the problem may be that is no global declaration of a variable and then your code is running within its own &quot;function&quot; so it can't see childWindow as a variable, or even a name. To be honest I don't use popup windows, but I tested this and it works. If you need more than one window to pop, I'd suggest passing parameters to the the function.
Code: 
<html>
<head>
<script>
var newWindow;
function popIt(){
newWindow=window.open('some.jpg','childWindow','dependent=0');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href=&quot;#top&quot; onClick=&quot;popIt()&quot;>child is born</a>
<br>
<a href=&quot;javascript:newWindow.close();&quot;>child dies</a>
<br>
</body></head></html>
Hope I helped / Thanks for helping
if ((x<10&&y<10) &&(((parseInt(x.toString()+y.toString())-x-y)%9)!=0)){ alert(&quot;I'm a monkey's uncle&quot;); }
 
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