I need to do remind the users something when they are leaving the page, and that can be handled with the window.onUnload event.
But I also need to check if the user is navigating away by submitting the form on the page, or by clicking the navigation links.
I could use the form's onSubmit event to set a flag, and then check against that flag in the window.onUnload event, but I am not sure which one fires first.
any ideas ?
You actually want window.onbeforeunload
window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
var e = e || window.event;
// For IE and Firefox
if (e) {
e.returnValue = 'Are You Sure?';
}
// For Safari
return 'Are You Sure?';
};
It turns out that the form.onSubmit event fires first so i can use a flag. I have checked this in Firefox and Safari only.
var isRefresh = true;
window.onunload = function () {
alert('the page was ' + (isRefresh == false ? 'NOT ' : '') + 'refreshed');
}
$('a').live('click', function () { isRefresh = false; alert('a link was clicked'); });
$('form').bind('submit', function () { isRefresh = false; alert('form was submitted'); });
Based on How to capture the browser window close event?. I added the refresh logic.