title | short-title | slug | page-type | browser-compat |
---|---|---|---|---|
Window: close() method |
close() |
Web/API/Window/close |
web-api-instance-method |
api.Window.close |
{{APIRef}}
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
{{domxref("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 {{domxref("Window")}}
objects returned by
HTMLIFrameElement.contentWindow
.
close()
None.
None ({{jsxref("undefined")}}).
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 {{domxref("window.open()")}}.
//Global variable to store a reference to the opened window
let openedWindow;
function openWindow() {
openedWindow = window.open("moreinfo.htm");
}
function closeOpenedWindow() {
openedWindow.close();
}
{{Specifications}}
{{Compat}}