How To Close A Popup Window In A Parent Window?

I need to close a popup window which has been loaded by a parent window. This popup window is a Documentviewer window in my webapp. I need to close this viewer by clicking a logout

Solution 1:

You probably have something like this on your parent page:

window.open(...);

If you change this to:

var popup = window.open(...);

then at any time you can close it by coding:

popup.close();

http://jsfiddle.net/pimvdb/bjkNx/1/

Solution 2:

Put your popup window in global variable:

<script>
    var popupWindow;

    function openw(url) {
        popupWindow = window.open(url, "popup", "");
    }

    function closew() {
        if (popupWindow) {
            popupWindow.close();
        }
    }

</script>
<a href="javascript:openw('about:blank')">open</a><br />
<a href="javascript:closew()">close</a>