Create a close button on a website?

Hi everyone,
Personally, I would put:
<input type='button' value='Close' onClick='self.close()' name="button">
It's JavaScript. In fact, it's a button, not very aesthetic, I agree because it's gray, but somewhere in CCM, there's a post that talks about the possible modifications to the color and plenty of fully customizable options for buttons in JavaScript.
In any case, give it a try and let us know what you think...
Important: this code should be inserted exactly where you want your page to close.

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Hello everyone.

If you find the Close button ugly (and I agree).
Well, as ipl said, you can put an image or you can modify the style of the button:

In head:

<style> .button { BORDER: #1473c0 1px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #1473c0; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #FFFFFF; } </style>

In body:

<input class="button" type="button" value="Close" />

For jp.bond,
In Firefox, in order to close a window via JavaScript, it must have been opened by JavaScript.

See Firefox JavaScript Console: "Scripts cannot close a window that was not opened by a script."

To open a window, it's:

window.open('mypage.htm','mypagename','options');

Here are the options if you're interested:
option description
directory = yes/no Displays navigation buttons or not
location = yes/no Displays the address bar or not
menubar = yes/no Displays the menu bar (file, edit, ...) or not
resizable = yes/no Defines whether the window size is adjustable or not
scrollbars = yes/no Displays scrollbars or not
status = yes/no Displays the status bar or not
toolbar = yes/no Displays the toolbar or not
width = width (in pixels) Defines the width
height = height (in pixels) Defines the height

The options must be entered one after the other, separated by commas, without spaces.

There you go :)

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Good evening ElZorro, good evening everyone,

It depends if it's the main page or an additional window:

try window.close()
(adapt this to what you are doing: a button, a link-href, a link-onClick, etc.)

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Ipl

Hello ElZorro (the fox in Spanish)
Here's what I use on my pages: this system has the main advantage of returning to the previously opened page by the user (it's the equivalent of the back arrow in Internet Explorer) but also a drawback: if the user has disabled JavaScript in Internet Explorer, I believe it won't work.
<strong><a href="Javascript:history.go(-1)">myLink</a>

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For your information, this code:
<input type='button' value='Close' onClick='self.close()' name="button">
or
<input type='button' value='Close' onClick='window.close();' name="button">

does not work in Firefox... oops!

any idea?
thank you...

I will try. In fact, I made a page with links that, when you click on them, open new windows, and it's to close these new windows that I want to add a button that closes the page when clicked.

But where do we need to put windows.close()??? If I put it in the html link it doesn't work (which is kind of normal).

Good evening ElZorro, good evening everyone,

In my post, I said to you:
>adapt this to what you do: a button, a link-href, a link-
>onClick, etc.)
- What txiki indicates (Input method and button) works very well!
- If you prefer a text-link-href, you will code: <a href="javascript:window.close();">Close</a>
- If you prefer an image-link-href, you will code: <a href="javascript:window.close();"><img src=image.gif border=0 width=20, height=15></a>
- If you prefer a text-link-onClick, you will code: <a href="#" onClick="window.close();">Close</a>
- etc.

Also, to complement txiki's writings, know that you can replace the gray button from the INPUT method with an image of your choice.

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Ipl

Hi everyone,
I didn't mention the text link because he wanted a button and besides, I wasn't very sure about the exact syntax.
If you prefer a text-link-onClick, you would code: <a href="#" onClick="window.close();">Close</a>
Thanks ipl for your additional comments (if I may say so) ;-)) Talk to you later

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Thank you all, I managed to create an onclick button, but I need to find a way to make it look a bit nicer because right now, it's really ugly (lol).

Hello elzorro and the others,
If you use Dreamweaver, you can insert a Flash element and in the window that opens, you can choose a button style. There are some really good ones in the basic installation, at least in mine.
See you later

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Good evening ElZorro, Txiki, good evening everyone,

You can put the image of your choice to replace the ugly button!

<input type="image" src="CCM.gif" onMouseOver="..." onMouseOut="...'" onClick="..." width=w height=h>

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Ipl

Hello!

All simple:

<a href="#" onClick="window.close();"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Close this window"> </a>

Button that can also accept effects with CSS...

Hello,

I have the same problem and I don't quite understand you. I must say that I am not an expert.

I work with Dreamweaver and I just want a link on the text "Close" that, when clicked, closes the page. Is there a code that works in all browsers (IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera...)?

A big thank you!

Joanie
P.S. Please be clear, as I'm not good at coding.

Hi joanie22,
You put the example below.
<a href="javascript:window.close();"> close the page </a>

NOTE: you can replace the word "javascript" with # which has the same effect.

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Hello everyone
I just tried all the codes on this page but it doesn't work with Firefox... (I use Dreamweaver)
Even a simple button that says "close" (like a classic gray button) would be enough for me to close a page.
THANK YOU for your help

Personally, I would put
<input type="button" value="Close" onclick="jsWindowClose()"/> ;)