In my desire to have a melody played beyond a page, I let a popup window open with the embed for a melody. Now in the middle of webpages, if any one wants to try another song, I let them press another link to open another popup window. My problem is both window plays different music at the same time.

How can I code to let the second popup window close the first one?

Can any one kindly share with me your knowhow on how to code to close the first window when a second popup window is called for?

These are the webpages where two different melodies are called for. We got the permission to play those musics by the way.

Welcome to Mokelumni River School - Lodi, CA area christian school
Annual Calendar - Mokelumni River School - Lodi, CA area christian school

When you open a window with window.open you should be giving it a name which you can reference from the orignal page. My thought is you would want to build an array with all the names of the possible windows on the page.

Links should be sent to a function that cycles through all the names and closing any that are open using the close()
method, before opening the one from the link.

Here's an article I just found Working with Windows: Referencing Windows

Thanks Vangogh for taking time to introduce to me close() ,and also REFERENCING idea, of which I still have no idea what is all about yet.

I keep searching more info so that I can figure out eventually how to close the first popup window (named newwindow) by the new popup window ( named newwin).

I have now the following made to open the second popup window.

<a href="popupex.html" onclick="window.close('popupex_0.html'); return popitup('popupex.html'); newwin.moveTo(20,650)">Click here for new song</a>

But still it does not close the first popup window.

Could any one help me?

Welcome to Mokelumni River School - Lodi, CA area christian school (first popup window opens automatically)
Annual Calendar - Mokelumni River School - Lodi, CA area christian school (second popup can be opened by clicking a link for now both play-I want the second one kills the first one automatically)

Thanks folks in advance.

See if this page DOM:window.close - MDC will help. I think the two functions they use under the close example would be a good way to set things up. The main difference would be that instead of having the name of the file hardcoded into the window.open you would want to pass the name of the file into the funtion and then into the window.open().

Your links would then call closeOpenedWindow followed by openWindow

Thanks again Vangogh, for leaving another post.

I tried so many new things without any success and am about to give up.

it appears to me that when the first popup was opened automatically, it does not hold its window name.

I also find out if I open popup window a few times, the second popup window hangs up the system "not responding" according to task manager.

Again thanks for taking time to give me some direction how to tackle this challenge.