How to close current tab in a browser window

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I want to create a link on a webpage that would close the currently active tab in a browser without closing other tabs in the browser  When the user clicks the close link  an alert message should appear asking the user to confirm with two buttons   YES  and  NO   If the user clicks  YES   close that page and If  NO   do nothing   How can it be done  Any suggestions

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The following works for me in Chrome 41   function leave       var myWindow   window open       self      myWindow document write        setTimeout  function    myWindow close     1000       I ve tried several ideas for FF including opening an actual web-page  but nothing seems to work  As far as I understand  any browser will close a tab or window with xxx close   if it was really opened by JS  but FF   at least  cannot be duped into closing a tab by opening new content inside that tab   That makes sense when you think about it - a user may well not want JS closing a tab or window that has useful history

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You will need Javascript to do this  Use window close     close      Note  the current tab is implied  This is equivalent   window close      or you can specify a different window   So   function close window       if  confirm  Close Window           close            with HTML    lt a href  javascript close window     gt close lt  a gt    or    lt a href     onclick  close window   return false   gt close lt  a gt    You return false here to prevent the default behavior for the event  Otherwise the browser will attempt to go to that URL  which it obviously isn t    Now the options on the window confirm   dialog box will be OK and Cancel  not Yes and No   If you really want Yes and No you ll need to create some kind of modal Javascript dialog box   Note  there is browser-specific differences with the above  If you opened the window with Javascript  via window open    then you are allowed to close the window with javascript  Firefox disallows you from closing other windows  I believe IE will ask the user for confirmation  Other browsers may vary

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This is one way of solving the same  declare a JavaScript function like this   lt script gt    function Exit          var x confirm  Are You sure want to exit          if x  window close          lt  script gt    Add the following line to the HTML to call the function using a  lt button gt    lt button name  closeIt  onClick  Exit     gt Click to exit  lt  Button gt

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Here s how you would create such a link     lt a href  javascript if confirm  Close window    window close    gt close lt  a gt

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As far as I can tell  it no longer is possible in Chrome or FireFox   It may still be possible in IE  at least pre-Edge

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As for the people who are still visiting this page  you are only allowed to close a tab that is opened by a script OR by using the anchor tag of HTML with target  blank  Both those can be closed using the   lt script gt      window close     lt  script gt

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Sorry for necroposting this  but I recently implemented a locally hosted site that had needed the ability to close the current browser tab and found some interesting workarounds that are not well documented anywhere I could find  so took it on myself to do so  Note  These workarounds were done with a locally hosted site in mind  and  with the exception of Edge  require the browser to be specifically configured  so would not be ideal for publicly hosted sites  Context  In the past  the jQuery script window close   was able to close the current tab without a problem on most browsers  However  modern browsers no longer support this script  potentially for security reasons  Google Chrome  Chrome does not allow the window close   script to be to be run and nothing happens if you try to use it  By using the Chrome plugin TamperMonkey however we can use the window close   method if you include the     grant        window close in the UserScript header of TamperMonkey  For example  my script  which is triggered when a button with id    close page  is clicked and if  yes  is pressed on the browser popup  looks like       UserScript       name         Close Tab Script     namespace    http   tampermonkey net      version      1 0     description  Closes current tab when triggered     author       Mackey Johnstone     match        http   localhost index php     grant        window close     require      http   code jquery com jquery-3 4 1 min js       UserScript     function          use strict          quot  close page quot   click function             var confirm result   confirm  quot Are you sure you want to quit  quot            if  confirm result    true                window close                             Note  This solution can only close the tab if it is NOT the last tab open however  So effectively  it cannot close the tab if it would cause window to closes by being the last tab open  Firefox  Firefox has an advanced setting that you can enable to allow scripts to close windows  effectively enabling the window close   method  To enable this setting go to about config then search and find the dom allow scripts to close windows preference and switch it from false to true  This allows you to use the window close   method directly in your jQuery file as you would any other script  For example  this script works perfectly with the preference set to true   lt script gt       quot  close page quot   click function         var confirm result   confirm  quot Are you sure you want to quit  quot        if  confirm result    true          window close                 lt  script gt   This works much better than the Chrome workaround as it allows the user to close the current tab even if it is the only tab open  and doesn t require a third party plugin  The one downside however is that it also enables this script to be run by different websites  not just the one you are intending it to use on  so could potentially be a security hazard  although I cant imagine closing the current tab being particularly dangerous  Edge  Disappointingly Edge actually performed the best out of all 3 browsers I tried  and worked with the window close   method without requiring any configuration  When the window close   script is run  an additional popup alerts you that the page is trying to close the current tab and asks if you want to continue  Edit  This was on the old version of Edge not based on chromium  I have not tested it  but imagine it will act similarly to Chrome on chromium based versions  Final Note  The solutions for both Chrome and Firefox are workarounds for something that the browsers intentionally disabled  potentially for security reasons  They also both require the user to configure their browsers up to be compatible before hand  so would likely not be viable for sites intended for public use  but are ideal for locally hosted solutions like mine  Hope this helped

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a bit late but this is what i found out     window close   will only work  IE is an exception  if the window that you are trying to close   was opened by a script using window open   method     please see the comment of  killstreet below about anchor tag with target  blank    TLDR  chrome  amp  firefox allow to close them   you will get console error   Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script   as an error and nothing else   you could add a unique parameter in the URL to know if the page was opened from a script  like time  - but its just a hack and not a native functionality and will fail in some cases   i couldn t find any way to know  if the page was opened from a open   or not  and close will not throw and errors  this will NOT print  test    try    window close      catch  e     console log  text        you can read in MDN more about the close   function

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You can use window close   to close browser tab

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This method works in Chrome and IE    lt a href  blablabla  onclick  setTimeout function   var ww   window open window location    self    ww close       1000    gt      If you click on this the window will be closed after 1000ms  lt  a gt

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lt button class  closeButton  style  cursor  pointer  onclick  window close     gt Close Window lt  button gt    this did the work for me

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Tested successfully in FF 18 and Chrome 24   Insert in head    lt script gt      function closeWindow             window open      parent               window close           lt  script gt     HTML    lt a href  javascript closeWindow     gt Close Window lt  a gt    Credits go to Marcos J  Drake

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Try this as well  Working for me on all three major browsers     lt  -- saved from url  0014 about internet -- gt   lt a href     onclick  javascript window close   opener window focus      gt Close Window lt  a gt

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Try this   lt a href  javascript window open      self   close     gt close lt  a gt

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It is possible  I searched the whole net for this  but once when i took one of microsoft s survey  I finally got the answer   try this   window top close      this will close the current tab for you

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