What do I put in a hyperlink to close a page?, Close a web page Options

[jmk909er]

I have a simple single web page and I want to have a hyperlink at the bottom to close the page as follows:

"No thanks, I understand these offers will never be made to me again..."

I want to hyperlink the sentence to close the page. I have found some solutions on the web but none seem to work.

[pandy]

You can only do that with JavaScript. But JavaScript can only close a window that's opened by JavaScript, i.e. a classic popup window. Is that what you have?

If you want to close the main window, or any window not opened by JavaScript, it can't be done.

[pandy]

Wait, maybe I misunderstood. What do you mean with closing a page? Close the window or just leave the page and go somewhere else?

[jmk909er]

No its just simple HTML

[jmk909er]

I would like to close the page

[Christian J]

"No thanks, I understand these offers will never be made to me again..."

That sounds like the kind of content you'd find in a popup (or today's javascript+CSS equivalents), not in the main browser window. If it's in the main window the user would close his entire browser, which is probably not wanted.

In either case javascript is the only solution, it can't be done with HTML alone.

[pandy]

I would like to close the page

I hear you, but what does that mean to you? Either you leave the page and go to another page in the same brower window or you close the browser window. You can't really close a page.

[jmk909er]

I would like to close the page just like you would go to the top right and click on the X

It doesn't look like this can be done

[pandy]

OK, then you mean close the WINDOW. Alas my first answer is valid then. You can only do this if the window was opened by JavaScript. So if it is a popup window you can do it, if it isn't you can't.