Button to close web site

[gracehjs]

I inherited a web site written using Joomla! Some things work well, but not the menus. I have a lot of old news letters that I want to show. My thought was to just build a page in XDP10 to link to all the PDFs. I have it working as far as opening the Xara page and seeing the menu. Now I want to be able to use a button to close this web page and return to the Joomla! page I started from. Looking for info, I can see how to close a popup layer, but not how to close the actual page.

Thanks

[pauland]

You don't close web pages, you just navigate to another one.

[gracehjs]

The problem is, I am trying to mesh two different things here. In joomla! I have an external URL, this sends me to a new tab regardless. So, now I have an new page open and need to close it to get back to my original web site. If I make the home button "If1airracing.com" it opens up a new tab :-(. So, I really need to close the Xara generated page.

[pauland]

Well, the links are telling the browser to open that new tab. You should still have the old tab with the site there. It wouldn't be a great situation if browser windows could shut down browser tabs on demand.

There used to be ways of doing this via javascript from the opening window, but really it's bad practice.

The moral here is - if you only want one tab open on your website at a time, don't use _self for your link target.

[steve.ledger]

javascript:self.close();

[gracehjs]

O.K., I figured out how to stay on the same page. And a link to "previous page" works.

Thanks