Close Current Tab

Question

I have a close link on my web page  I would like to function it to close the current tab when click it  I have written   lt a href     onclick    javascript self close     gt close lt  a gt    The above code seems to be working well in Internet Explorer  But it is not working in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome  Please help me to resolve this

User · Answer

Found a one-liner that works in Chrome 66 from: http://www.yournewdesigner.com/css-experiments/javascript-window-close-firefox.html

TLDR: tricks the browser into believing JavaScirpt opened the current tab/window

window.open('', '_parent', '').close();

So for completeness

<input type="button" name="close" value="close" onclick="window.close();">

Though let it also be noted that readers may want to place this into a function that fingerprints which browsers require such trickery, because Firefox 59 doesn't work with the above.

User · Answer

You can use below JavaScript   window open      self   close      In a HTML you can use below code   lt a href  javascript close window     gt close lt  a gt    I have tried this in Chrome 61 and IE11 it is working fine   But this is not working with Firefox 57  In Firefox we can only close  windows which opened using below command   window open

User · Answer

As of Chrome 46  a simple onclick window close   does the trick  This only closes the tab  and not the entire browser  if multiple tabs are opened

User · Answer

Use this   window open       self      This only works in chrome  it is a bug  It will be fixed in the future  so use this hacky solution with this in mind

User · Answer

Try this   window open       self   close

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Try this    lt script gt      var myWindow   window open  ANYURL    MyWindowName    width 700 height 700        this window close     lt  script gt    This worked for me in some cases in Google Chrome 50  It does not seem to work when put inside a javascript function  though

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You can only close windows tabs that you create yourself  That is  you cannot programmatically close a window tab that the user creates   For example  if you create a window with window open   you can close it with window close

[javascript] Close Current Tab

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