Close cfwindow via program?

one thing to remember about forms in cfwindow (or any other cf ajax
container):

if you use <CFFORM> tag, the form will submit to the container it is
displayed in;

but if you use a regular <FORM> tag, it will submit to the main page.

so, the simplest solution for your problem is to use regular <FORM> tag.

but if you can't (i.e. you need the cfform's built-in validation or
something like that), then you can simply use <CFLOCATION> at the end of
form processing code to relocate the user to a 'thank you' page -
cflocation will open the 'thank you' page as a main page, not inside
cfwindow.

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

I would have the form submit normally, the redirect the CFWindow to a 'thank you page' that includes a button or link at the end which says

"Click Here to Close this Window"

The actual closing part can be done with Javascript, as seen here:

http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/closing-windows.html

To be fair, in the documentation for CFWindow it says that you can use a Javascript function called ColdFusion.Window.Hide to close a window, but I've never used that myself. You can see that documentation here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_u-z_3.html

and more on ColdFusion.Window.Hide here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/JavaScriptFcns_30.html#1211305