Closing Windows

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To close a window, you can use the window object's close () method. If you are closing the current window, your method call is simply window.close (). Unlike other window object methods, such as alert () or setTimer (), the close () method must always accompany an object reference. If you use close () by itself, you could close the current document rather than the window, depending on the context of the method call. The reason is that the document object has a close () method, too.

Displaying Message Boxes

Dialog is one of the useful components in windows to display certain information.

Alert is used to display a message. The Syntax is as follows

alert ("Message")

Confirm

You have a new method called confirm to get a confirmation. The syntax is as follows.

Variable = confirm ("Message")

Example

<html>

<head>

<script>

var name=prompt("Enter name","anonymous")

function drawrule(width) {

document.write("<HR WIDTH="+width+"%>")

}

if (!confirm("Click ok if you are using Netscape")){

document.write("<center><b>Dear "+name)

drawrule(50)

document.write("Please use Netscape with JavaScript</b></

center>");

}

</script>

</head>

</html>

User Input

A third message box that you can use for obtaining user input is invoked with the prompt () method of the window object. Use the prompt dialog box when you want to obtain a value from a user. This dialog box features a message, an edit box for user input, and OK and Cancel buttons. The prompt () method has the following syntax:

returnValue = [window.]prompt(message, defaultReply)

As you can see, in addition to specifying the message of the dialog box, you need to specify a defaultReply parameter. This value becomes the default text inserted in the edit box of the message box. You must specify this parameter, even if you have no default value. If the user clicks OK, the prompt () method returns the string value entered by the user. If nothing is entered in the edit box, an empty string ("") is returned. However, if the user clicks Cancel, a null value is returned.

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