How to close a window using jQuery

Question

How to close a window using jQuery for all browser compatibility?

<input type="button"         name="backButton"         value="Close"         style="background-color:#245f91; color:#fff;font-weight:bold;"         onclick="window.close();"> 

This onclick event is working in IE. Could you help me to write code in jQuery?

Answer 1

$(element).click(function(){     window.close(); }); 

Note: you can not close any window that you didn't opened with window.open. Directly invoking window.close() will ask user with a dialogue box.