The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Working with Windows as Objects

Because windows are objects, you manipulate them just as you would any object (see Chapter 2 for a discussion of objects and methods), by using JavaScript's dot notation to apply one of the available methods to the window object you name:

window_name.method_name();

This chapter introduces the methods that JavaScript provides for the most important window operations, along with useful properties you can specify for a window object.