Q747 How can close a popup window after a delay?

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Q747 How can close a popup window after a delay?

Basically place the following within the new page:

<BODY onLoad="setTimeout('window.close()',5000)">

where 5000 is 5 seconds.

If you don't have access to the new page to amend the body tag, then use the following:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
windowHandle = window.open('page.htm','windowName','width=400,height=400');

setTimeout('windowHandle.close()',5000);
//--></SCRIPT>

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