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Hi All,

I have two pages
1. default.html
2. login.html

In application startup page is default.html. When run this page will open login.html with separate window(in my case will open the application in full view). At the same time default.html will reopen again and close immediately.

The following source is working fine in ie,chrome, safari. But It is not working in Firefox only.

default.html

<pre lang="xml"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function openWin() {
            var qry = window.document.location.href;
            var val = qry.indexOf("flag");
            if (val == -1) {
                window.open("login.html", "Login");
                var selfwin = window.open("default.html?flag=open", "_self");
                selfwin.close();
            }
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body onload="openWin();">
</body>
</html>
</pre>

login.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="frmlogin">
    <h4>
        Login Page</h4>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Posted 17-Jun-12 20:43pm

P.T.R.K

Updated 25-Jun-12 18:20pm

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Shelby Robertson 19-Jun-12 10:20am

"At the same time default.html will reopen again and close immediately."

Why would you want it to reopen and then close? Why not just close?

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Peter_in_2780 · Answer 1 · 2012-06-25T19:19:00

You wrote:

HTML

var qry = window.document.location.href;

W3schools says

The location object is part of the window object and is accessed through the window.location property.

Note: There is no public standard that applies to the location object, but all major browsers support it.

See their first sentence. You should try

XML

var qry = window.location.href;

Cheers,
Peter