warn User Whenever They Leave the browser in javascript??

[madhulika]

window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;
function confirmExit() {
return "Please login or signup to save your images";
}

whenever i click on any link on website it shows dis message,

i only wants to show message when user close the browser!!!

plz suggets

[felgall]

JavaScript only knows if the page is about to be unloaded - it doesn't know why the page is being unloaded. It therefore can't distinguish between reloading the current page, going to another page on the same site, going to a page on a different site, or closing the current tab, or closing the browser.

You might be able to set something from a click event on links in the page that you can test for from the beforeunload code to detect if the reason for the unload is that they clicked a link - that would get rid of some of the unloads not related to closing the browser.

[rnd me]

onbeforeunload will stop "popping up" in firefox and chrome soon, don't use it anymore.

[xelawho]

Originally Posted by rnd me

onbeforeunload will stop "popping up" in firefox and chrome soon, don't use it anymore.

oh, crud. is there something else we can use?

[xelawho]

... in the meantime you could use a simple flag...

window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;
var waslink = false;

function confirmExit() {
    if (!waslink) {
        return "Please login or signup to save your images";
    }
    waslink = false;
}

var lnks = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

for (var i = 0; i < lnks.length; i++) {
    lnks[i].onmousedown = function () {
        waslink = true;
    }
}