Close Current Tab

How to close current tab in a browser window?

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:

<a href="javascript:close_window();">close</a>

or:

<a href="#" onclick="close_window();return false;">close</a>

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.

Close Current Tab

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().

How to close active tab with Javascript?

This should close the current tab :

window.top.close();

Note: This should work in Internet Explorer 11 AND Chrome 46

If you try to use window.close from a userscript you will get the below:

Firefox: The error message will come stating "Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script."

Chrome: It will just silently fails.

The best way to deal with this is to make a Chrome extension or Firefox add-on instead.

Earlier this codes work:

open(location, '_self').close();

May be blocked now-a-days.

You can try with timeout:

setTimeout (window.close, 3000);

In Firefox, still I think we can use:

dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows;false to true

But Chrome, still nothing is there I believe cause its a security issue.

Hope these all will help you.

How to close the current tab of the browser in protractor with out closing the complete browser

You can try the following:

Switch to the new opened tab. Close the current windows (in this case, the new tab). Switch back to the first window.

browser.getAllWindowHandles().then((handles) => {
    browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[1]);
    browser.driver.close();
    browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[0]);
});

is it possible to close current tab of browser using java/spring boot

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 Window. open() method.

Since Java is a back-end language, it cannot be used to close current windows.

Instead, use:

close();

Which is the equivalent of:

window.close();

(It assumes the current tab)

How to close current tab using javascript?

It is possible. I searched the whole internet 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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