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BrowserTab.close()

This documentation relates to Opera's now deprecated .oex Extension API framework for Opera versions <= 12.15 and also provided by our OEX2NEX shim library.

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Description:

The close() method provides a way to close a browser tab.

Parameters:

None

Syntax:

void close ()

Example:

The following example creates a button on the browser toolbar. When the button is clicked, the current tab is detected and then closed.

//
// The background process (e.g. index.html) 
//

// Specify the properties of the button before creating it.
var UIItemProperties = {
  disabled: false,
  title: "Example extension",
  icon: "images/icon_18.png",
  onclick: function() {
    // Get the current tab as a BrowserTab object
    var thisTab = opera.extension.tabs.getSelected();
    
    // Close the current tab
    thisTab.close()
  }
};

// Create the button and add it to the toolbar.
var button = opera.contexts.toolbar.createItem( UIItemProperties );  
opera.contexts.toolbar.addItem(button);