Name

closed — NN 3 IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read-only

Boolean value that says whether the referenced window is closed. A value of true means the window is no longer available for referencing its objects or script components. This is used most often to check whether a user has closed a subwindow generated by the window.open( ) method.

Example

if (!newWindow.closed) {
    newWindow.document.write("<HTML><BODY><H1>Howdy!</H1></BODY></HTML>")
    newWindow.document.close( )
}

Value

Boolean value: true | false.

Default

None.

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