# Closing browser window from button in perspective?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/closing-browser-window-from-button-in-perspective/56235>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [February 16, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/closing-browser-window-from-button-in-perspective/56235 "2022-02-16T23:30:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/closing-browser-window-from-button-in-perspective/56235/6 "2022-02-23T16:40:31Z")

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Browsers only allow you to close via Javascript a window/tab that was itself _opened_ via Javascript:

> **[Window.close() - Web APIs | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/close)**
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> The Window.close() method closes the current window, or
> the window on which it was called.

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