[lynchm0bx]

I have an asp page that is being spawned by link. This pop-up lists items from a database. it has a button that opens a link in the same window if you want to add to the database. When I attempt to add script to the page to close the window on submit, it fails
if I open a single window from the parent, and call doit() from the onclick , this script works great at submitting the form. It appears that once another page is loaded in the pop-up, it breaks...

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function doit()
{ document.main.submit()
setTimeout('self.close()',1000);
}
</SCRIPT>



any ideas?
thanks

[TwoD]

I think this script doesn't work because the submit() function reloads the page. When the page is reloaded, all scripts die. The same thing happens if you open a new document in a window containing a script. All scripts exists in the document, not the window. That means no scripts can execute if the document they're on no longer exists.
Maybe you could try this instead:
in doit() (which I assume is in the popup) you call the setTimeout function from the parent instead. That way the code is executed from the parent and not the popup.

Code:

function doit(){
 window.opener.setTimeout('reference_to_popup.close()',2000) // Call this BEFORE you submit the page.
 document.main.submit()
}

I'm not sure that works. Just make sure you store a reference to the popup with var reference_to_popup = window.open('mypage.htm')
Note that reference_to_popup must be a global variable or it won't be accessible from the popop.

Hope that helps.

[End User]

Just as an FYI, I don't think you can close a window via javascript if that window wasn't opened by javascript (you'll get a 'close this window?' prompt instead).

[TwoD]

True, but since he opens the database listings in a popup, he can also close it without the warning. But not from within the popup if the document is reloading because of being submitted.