Window: close() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The Window.close()
method closes the current window, or
the window on which it was called.
This method can only be called on windows that were opened by a script using the
Window.open()
method, or on top-level windows that have a single history entry. If the window doesn't match these requirements, an error
similar to this one appears in the console:
Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script.
Note also that close()
has no effect when called on Window
objects returned by
HTMLIFrameElement.contentWindow
.
Syntax
close()
Parameters
None.
Return value
None (undefined
).
Examples
Closing a window opened with window.open()
This example shows a method which opens a window and a second one which closes the
window; this demonstrates how to use Window.close()
to close a window
opened by calling window.open()
.
//Global variable to store a reference to the opened window
let openedWindow;
function openWindow() {
openedWindow = window.open("more-info.htm");
}
function closeOpenedWindow() {
openedWindow.close();
}
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-window-close-dev |
Browser compatibility
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