HTML DOM Document close()

Open a document, write some text to it, and close it:

document.open();
document.write("<h1>Hello World</h1>");
document.write("<p>Open owerwrites original content.</p>");
document.close();

Open a new window, then open a document, write some text to it, and close it:

const myWindow = window.open();
myWindow.document.open();
myWindow.document.write("<h1>Hello World!</h1>");
myWindow.document.close();

Description

The close() method closes a window previously opened with the open() method.

The document.open() method clears the document (overwrites all previous content).

document.close()

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document.close() is a DOM Level 1 (1998) feature.

It is fully supported in all browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9-11