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Re: Closing a tab in mobile safari

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On Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:11:19 AM UTC+2, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> On 23/11/2011 9:26 PM, Andrew Poulos wrote:
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> > On 23/11/2011 4:00 PM, Andrew Poulos wrote:
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> >> I have a web page that when the user clicks a link opens a new window.
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> >> On Safari in iOS 5 the window opens in a tab.
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> >>
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> >> The user is meant to interact with the data on the new window. After
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> >> they do so the window is meant to close to return them to the opener.
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> >>
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> >> Alas, using window.close(); in the opened window/tab closes all tabs
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> >> including the opener.
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> >>
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> >> I then tried window.opener.outline.close(); ('outline' being the name I
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> >> gave to the new window) but again all the tabs were closed.
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> >>
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> >> How can I close just the opened window/tab from within itself with
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> >> Safari on iOS 5?
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> >
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> > What's weird is that if I add a link with an onclick, and touch it, then
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> > just the tab will close ie. with a link like:
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> >
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> > <a href="#" onclick="window.close(); return false;">close outline</a>
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> >
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> > And I tried using initEvent to trigger a mouse click on the link and
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> > still all tabs closed :-(
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> Well the issue did have a solution after all. Though the guy who 
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> provided it doesn't want me to post about it :-(
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> 
> 
> Andrew Poulos

Hi, you can try this js code snippet.

var win = window.open('','_self');
win.close();

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