javascript - How to close a window using jQuery

Question

How to close a window using jQuery for all browser compatibility?

<input type="button" 
       name="backButton" 
       value="Close" 
       style="background-color:#245f91; color:#fff;font-weight:bold;" 
       onclick="window.close();">

This onclick event is working in IE. Could you help me to write code in jQuery?

Answer 1

$(element).click(function(){
    window.close();
});

Note: you can not close any window that you didn't opened with window.open. Directly invoking window.close() will ask user with a dialogue box.