Javascript Timer

[senthilsstil]

Hi Friends, I m having a timer in my page which decreases the time,i want to close the window automatically when the time reaches end.I have used window.close() but it asks me a message whether window should be close or not.Can any one tell me how to close the window automatically. Here is the Coding function startTimer1(h,m,s) { if(document.getElementById('txt').innerHTML=="00:00:00") { alert("Your time is Over,Now the Application is going to close"); //self.close(); window.close(); return false; } var today=new Date(); if(h=="0" && m=="0" && s=="0") { h=00; m=01; s=00; } else { if(s=="00") { s=59; if(m=="00" && h!="00") { h=parseInt(h)-1; m=59; } else if(m!="00" && h=="00") { m=parseInt(m)-1; } else if(m!="00" && h!="00") { m=parseInt(m)-1; } else if(s=="00" && m=="00") { if(h!="00") h=parseInt(h)-1; } } else s=parseInt(s)-1; } // add a zero in front of numbers<10 h=checkTime(h); m=checkTime(m); s=checkTime(s); document.getElementById('txt').innerHTML=h+":"+m+":"+s; t=setTimeout('startTimer1('+h+','+m+','+s+')',1000); } function checkTime(i) { if (i<10) { i="0" + i; } return i; }

[Christian Graus]

You can't.

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[Jesse Squire]

The best that you can do is call window.close and have the user answer the prompt. Modern browsers will not allow you to close the browser window without user consent as the browser belongs to the user, not to your application. The one exception, if memory serves me, is opening a modal popup window in Internet Explorer. I would recommend that you steer clear of this, if possible, as it relies on browser specific behavior. Not only will it bind your application to IE, but future versions of IE are not guaranteed to support it. Hope that helps. :)

--Jesse

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[eyeseetee]

If you don't want to close the window just direct the user to another page, this would make the app much better for the user. These days with tabbed browsing you could ask the user to close and it close the whole window, therefore annoying the user

[Sandilian]

hai Friend. Please add window.opener='x' code before window.close <script language="jscript" type="text/javascript"> function startTimer1(h,m,s) { var today=new Date(); if(h=="0" && m=="0" && s=="0") { h=00; m=01; s=00; } else { if(s=="00") { s=59; if(m=="00" && h!="00") { h=parseInt(h)-1; m=59; } else if(m!="00" && h=="00") { m=parseInt(m)-1; } else if(m!="00" && h!="00") { m=parseInt(m)-1; } else if(s=="00" && m=="00") { if(h!="00") h=parseInt(h)-1; } } else s=parseInt(s)-1; } // add a zero in front of numbers<10 h=checkTime(h); m=checkTime(m); s=checkTime(s); var timerText=h+":"+m+":"+s; document.getElementById("<%=txtTimerId.ClientID%>").innerText=timerText; if(timerText =="00:00:00") { alert("Your time is Over,Now the Application is going to close"); /// This is the Code I added here; window.opener='x'; window.close(); return true; } t=setTimeout('startTimer1('+h+','+m+','+s+')',1000); } function checkTime(i) { if (i<10) { i="0" + i; } return i; } </script>

[Ashish Sehajpal]

a window can be closed using javascript if and only if it has been opened by javascript i.e. POPUP windows

Ashish Sehajpal