Pop Ups

Hi

I am using a popup, I launch the popup from a form, the user then choses an item on the popup, which is put into a session variable and then another form is launched. This works OK except the original form which launched the popup is still open how do I close it when the popup is launch. I use the code below to launch the popup

Dim sTempAsString

sTemp = "<script>window.open('LPopUpContractor.aspx',null,'top=150,left=250,height=150,width=450,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,location=no');</script>"

Response.Write(sTemp)

Response.Flush()

Thanks

Louisa

Hi,
you can close the form from its container window,
<!-- Put this script in MyMainForm.aspx -->
<script type="text/javascript">
window.open('myPopupForm.aspx');
window.close();
</script>
or let the popup close the window that launched it,
<!-- Put this script in myPopupForm.aspx -->
<script type="text/javascript">
if(window.opener) {
window.opener.close();
}
</script>

This works brillantly, but I now get a popup before mine saying:

The Web page you are viewing is trying to close the window

Do you want to close this window?

I click on the yes and my popup appears, how do I get rid of the error msg popup?

Thanks

Louisa

Hi,
it is not an error message popup, it is an Internet Explorer security setting that prevents a script to close a window that wasn't opened by the script itself, without the user permission... well, it seems that a workaround exists for Internet Explorer, just try to set the window.opener property to some value. For example
<script type="text/javascript">
window.opener = this;
window.open('myPopup.aspx');
window.close();
</script>
but I'm not sure it will work on all browsers.

Hi,

The above doesn't seem to work for me as it just puts the pages into a loop, can I not close a previous page from the page load of the new page, when the new page is fully loaded?

Thanks

Louisa

Hi,
I don't know if a workaround exists for the security popup. Try to post this question in theClient Side Web Develoment section of these forums.

a little discussion about that same pop-up

http://forums.asp.net/962609/ShowPost.aspx

Hi,
thanks for posting the link, onewisehobbit.