Window: close() method

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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.

Syntax

close()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None ({{jsxref("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 {{domxref("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

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Browser compatibility

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