Java Error Logs and Its Possible Answers: January 2015

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Close PDF Child Window in Parent (works in IE, Mozilla, Firefox)

In my previous post, I tried to open a pdf in another window, and when user clicks Done button in the parent window, the pdf (child) window should close. I have successfully achieved this but it didn't work in Internet explorer. But Thank God! I found an alternate fix that will run both in Internet Explorer, Chrome and Mozilla.

 var child; //initialize as global
$('#printBtn').button().click(function (e) {      
     var link = 'viewtranslip.html'; //link for generating your pPDF 
     var html = "<html><head><title></title>";  
     html += "</head><body style='margin: 0;'>";  
     html += "<iframe height='100%' width='100%' src='" + link +"'></iframe>";  
     html += "</body></html>";  
     child = window.open("", "_blank", "resizable=1,status=0,toolbar=0,menubar=0");  
     child.document.write(html);  
     return win;  
 });     

 //close child button   
   $('#doneBtn').button().click(function (e) {  
     e.preventDefault();  
 //check if child window is already closed  
       if (child && !child.closed){       
         child.close();       
       }        
   });

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Close Child Window from Parent Jquery

Open new window (child) from parent

 var child; //initialize as global  
   
   $('#prinBtn').button().click(function (e) {  
     child = window.open('viewtranslip.html');      
   });       
   
 //close child button   
   $('#doneBtn').button().click(function (e) {  
     e.preventDefault();  
 //check if child window is already closed  
       if (child && !child.closed){       
         child.close();       
       }        
   });

Tested in IE 8, Chrome and Mozilla.
Limitation: If you open a pdf, doc, xls, in child window, this function will return a "Permission Denied" error on the child.close() line. "When Internet Explorer uses an Active Document server, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Adobe Reader, to display a document in an Internet Explorer window, the page contains only the active document window and not the MSHTML. "
Read more about this limitation at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934365/

Update: I found a fix that works in Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome