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A spawned child window contains a link that is supposed to open in the parent, then the child is supposed to close. This is similar to the Javascript:Windows FAQ 84, yet decidedly different.
A simple onclick="window.close" won't work in this case because the window will close before it has a chance to process the link. So, use the code for FAQ 84 and attach a window.close to the end. This forces the child to think about what he's done and process the link before closing.
<head>:
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function load(file,target) {
if (target != '') {
target.window.location.href = file;
} else {
window.location.href = file;
}
window.close();
}
//--></script>
The link:
<a href="javascript:load('thelink.html',opener)">Submitted by Dan