How to close a window using jQuery

Question

How to close a window using jQuery for all browser compatibility?

Answer 1

$(element).click(function(){
    window.close();
});

Note: you can not close any window that you didn't opened with window.open. Directly invoking window.close() will ask user with a dialogue box.

Answer 2

For IE: window.close(); and self.close(); should work fine.

If you want just open the IE browser and type

javascript:self.close() and hit enter, it should ask you for a prompt.

Note: this method doesn't work for Chrome or Firefox.

Answer 3

This will only work for windows which are opened by using window.open(); method. Try this

var tmp=window.open(params);
tmp.close();

Answer 4

You can only use the window.close function when you have opened the window using window.open(), so I use the following function:

function close_window(url){
    var newWindow = window.open('', '_self', ''); //open the current window
    window.close(url);
 }

Answer 5

just window.close() is OK, why should write in jQuery?