Close Current Tab

Question

I have a close link on my web page. I would like to function it to close the current tab when click it. I have written

<a href="#" onclick = "javascript:self.close();">close</a> 

The above code seems to be working well in Internet Explorer. But it is not working in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Please help me to resolve this.

Answer 1

You can only close windows/tabs that you create yourself. That is, you cannot programmatically close a window/tab that the user creates.

For example, if you create a window with window.open() you can close it with window.close().

Answer 2

As of Chrome 46, a simple onclick=window.close() does the trick. This only closes the tab, and not the entire browser, if multiple tabs are opened.