How To Close Popup Window Automatically When Its Not In Use?

Question

I want a popup window to close automatically as soon as the user minimizes the window. My code is as follows:

<a href="#" onclick="Popup=window.open('fb.html','Popup','toolbar=no,location=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=620,height=400,left=230,top=23'); return false;">

any ideas?

Answer 1

See a post about programmatically opening and closing pop-ups.

For browser windows or tabs, I believe that you need the user to click a confirmation box (the confirmation is created by the browser as a security feature).

Added Think about your UX (User Experience) -- it is not usual for a user to think about minimizing a window. Perhaps you should provide a "close" button.

Also, investigate the various libraries such as Boostrap modal popups . They already have worked on the UX issues.

Answer 2

There's no event that triggers when the window is minimized. The best you can do is to check the height and width at a set interval. Closing the browser window is trivial Popup.close() should do it.