How do I programmatically close the browser search pane in ASP or
ASP.NET?
I am new to ASP programming.
I set the target to "_search" and my page displays in the browser
search pane window.  But when the user hits a "Close" on the screen, I
want the search pane to go away without having to hit the [x] on the
top of the form.

I'm not a researcher, but this question was interesting, I did not
know IE supported targeting the search bar.  So using standard
window.open and close functions I was able to (I think) discover the
functionality you described.  Here's what I found.  Just paste it into
a blank HTML document, save and then try the links.  I'm using IE 6
for testing.  For more information try searching groups.google.com for
'_search'.

-BEGIN-

<SCRIPT>
var searchbar

function openSearchbar(pagename){
	searchbar = window.open(pagename,"_search");
}

function closeSearchbar(){
	searchbar.close()
}

</SCRIPT>

<A HREF="javascript: openSearchbar('://www.google.com')">open</A>
<BR><BR>
<A HREF="javascript: closeSearchbar()">close</A>

-END-

-Rob Z.

http://www.bellallusions.com
http://www.striezelmarkt.org

is this page somewhere where I can look at it? I would love to help
you on this, Please let me know. also previous comment to this
question that said use the searchbar.close() should work also if not
let me know :)

Hi, thanks for the sample.

The first part, of opening the window is what i am need, but when I
close the window, I don't just want my content to go away, leaving the
blank frame.  I want the area consumed by the search bar to disappear,
to be replaced by the main part of my application.

I couldn't get the closeSearchbar() example of your example to work.