I am trying to display confirmation box using window.confirm on window unload event.
If a user clicks on the OK button on confirmation box then I want to call one function and if user clicks the CANCEL button then window should be get closed.
My code is:
<script>
function confirmit(){
var result=window.confirm("Are you sure?");
if(result) {
// close all child windows
} else{
// window should not get close
}
}
</script>
<body onunload='confirmit();' >
But the problem is if I click on CANCEL button, window is getting closed.
Please help me.
You can't prevent unload to stop the page from unloading. You need to bind to onbeforeunload instead. You should just return the string you want to display to the user from the event handler (note that in some browsers the string may not be displayed)
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onbeforeunload = function(e){
var msg = 'Are you sure?';
e = e || window.event;
if(e)
e.returnValue = msg;
return msg;
}
</script>
More info here
JSFiddle Example here
change your code to this to make it work cross-browser:
<script>
window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
e = e || window.event;
// For IE and Firefox prior to version 4
if (e) {
e.returnValue = 'Do you really want to exit?';
}
// For Safari
return 'Do you really want to exit?';
};
</script>
<body>
...
note that this is using the onbeforeunload-event (more information / view an example) where the return-value has to be the message that should be shown to the user.
i don't know if you'll have a chance to react on the confirmation to do something after that (closing child-windows for example), but i don't think so.
Related
I am trying using following code-
window.onunload = function(e){
return "Do you really want to quit without saving."
}
**
But message is also appearing if I will try to navigate from one page
to another
**. I only want this functionality if user clicks on the [x] button not on any event change.
I have also tried following-
window.onbeforeunload = function(e){
return "Somethig"
}
Note- I want to identify the event when user only closing the browser, not for any other page event.
Using Jquery:
$(window).unload(function() {
//your code
});
using javasscript:
window.onbeforeunload = function(e){
var displaymessage = 'Are you sure?';
e = e || window.event;
if(e)
e.returnValue = displaymessage;
return displaymessage;
}
This question is a duplicate of this question.
You can't modify the default dialogue for onbeforeunload, so your best bet may be to work with it.
Also, in recent versions of Chrome, the feature has been deprecated.
Edit 09/04/2018: custom messages in onbeforeunload dialogs are deprecated since chrome-51 (cf: release note)
I want warn users if they leave the page by closing the browser or using the history buttons of the browser using the following javascript:
window.onbeforeunload = function(e) {
return 'Ask user a page leaving question here';
};
But my links and buttons on my website should work regardless of this. How can I achieve that?
The first way that comes to mind is to set a variable that tells you whether a link was clicked:
var linked = false;
window.onbeforeunload = function(e) {
if (!linked)
return 'Ask user a page leaving question here';
};
document.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
if (e.target.tagName === "A")
linked = true;
}, false);
That is, set a click event handler at the document level, that tests whether the clicked element was an anchor (or whatever else you want to allow) and if so sets the variable. (Obviously this assumes that you don't have other anchor element click handlers at a lower level that stop event propagation.)
var linkClicked = false;
window.onbeforeunload = function(e) {
if (!linkClicked){
linkClicked = false;
return 'Ask user a page leaving question here';
}
};
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a').click(function(e){
linkClicked = true;
});
});
Obviously this relies on JQuery to add the event handler to all links, but you could attach the handler with any other method, including adding onclick="linkClicked=true;" to every link on the page if you really have to.
Edit:
Just want to point out that if the user clicks a link that doesn't redirect them (e.g. a hashtag link to somewhere else on the page, or something that returns false / prevents the default action being executed) then this will set linkClicked to true and subsequently any browser based navigation won't be caught.
If you want to catch this, I would advise setting a timeout on the link click like so:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a').click(function(e){
linkClicked = true;
setTimeout(function(){
linkClicked = false;
}, 500);
});
});
This will allow half a second for the window unload event to trigger before resetting the flag so that future navigation events are caught correctly. This still isn't perfect, but it probably doesn't need to be.
You can use the window.onbeforeunload event.
var check= false;
window.onbeforeunload = function () {
if (!check) {
return "Are you sure you want to leave this page?"
}
}
function CheckBackButton() {
check= true;
}
referenceElement.addEventListener('onClick', CheckBackButton(), false);
Us a confirmation prompt no?
like this? Intercept page exit event
window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
var message = "Your confirmation message goes here.",
e = e || window.event;
// For IE and Firefox
if (e) {
e.returnValue = message;
}
// For Safari
return message;
};
How to show the “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?” when changes committed? this may solve your problem How
Is there a way to execute a function before a user chooses to reload/close browser/exit page?
I need this for an "online/offline" status function i am trying to write. I want to detect whether the user is still on the page or not.
Any ideas? :)
Maybe there is a better approach to this?
Inline function:
window.onbeforeunload = function(evt) {
// Cancel the event (if necessary)
evt.preventDefault();
// Google Chrome requires returnValue to be set
evt.returnValue = '';
return null;
};
or via an event listener (recommended):
window.addEventListener("beforeunload", function(evt) {
// Cancel the event (if necessary)
evt.preventDefault();
// Google Chrome requires returnValue to be set
evt.returnValue = '';
return null;
});
or if you have jQuery:
$(window).on("beforeunload", function(evt) {
// Cancel the event (if necessary)
evt.preventDefault();
// Google Chrome requires returnValue to be set
evt.returnValue = '';
return null;
});
Notes:
When this event returns a non-void value, the user is prompted to
confirm the page unload. In most browsers, the return value of the
event is displayed in this dialog.
Since 25 May 2011, the HTML5 specification states that calls to
window.showModalDialog(), window.alert(), window.confirm() and
window.prompt() methods may be ignored during this event.
See documentation at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEventHandlers/onbeforeunload
Use window.onbeforeunload, it is triggered when user leaves your page :http://geekswithblogs.net/hmloo/archive/2012/02/15/use-window.onbeforeunload-event-to-stop-browser-from-closing-or-disable.aspx
Try this:
$( window ).unload(function() {
alert( "Handler for .unload() called." );
});
OR this if you want conformation alert
<script>
window.onbeforeunload = function(e) {
return 'Your dialog message';
};
</script>
I am created a page that warns the user when they click on the (close x) button on the window. I did some reading and discovered that JavaScript had a function called onbeforeonload which can take of the job I was trying to achieve. I however found at after my implementation that, when a user clicks on anything in my window (example: save and enter) The dialog box reappears. I was wondering how I could only target the specific X button in the window.
window.onbeforeunload = function (evt) {
var message = 'Do you want to leave?';
if (typeof evt == 'undefined') {
evt = window.event;
}
if (evt) {
evt.returnValue = message;
}
return message;
}
Right now the function is being called globally... this resource might help you achieve what you are looking for: http://randomdrake.com/2009/09/23/how-to-use-onbeforeunload-with-form-submit-buttons/
This is a "working as intended" behavior for IE. Anchor tag clicks, regardless of whether they navigate or not, will trigger the onbeforeunload event.
This is the workaround I used - I am not sure whether it is the best approach or not:
document.onmouseup = function () {
if (window.event.srcElement.tagName === 'A') {
// turn off your onbeforeunload handler
...
// some small time later, turn it back on
setTimeout(..., 200);
}
};
Does anyone know any way that I can use javascript to check when the browser window is closed and pop-up a confirmation dialog to ask whether the user is confirm to exit the browser or change his mind to stay?
window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
var e = e || window.event;
//IE & Firefox
if (e) {
e.returnValue = 'Are you sure?';
}
// For Safari
return 'Are you sure?';
};
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onbeforeunload
The documentation here encourages listening to the onbeforeunload event and/or adding an event listener on window.
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', function(e) {}, false);
You can also just populate the .onunload or .onbeforeunload properties of window with a function or a function reference.
Though behaviour is not standardized across browsers, the function may return a value that the browser will display when confirming whether to leave the page.
If the browser remains running after the page is closed, and if the browser processes the "onbeforeunload" event of the body element (sometimes it's disabled), and if the browser allows popup windows or mesage boxes and the ability to return false from that event to prevent the page change, then it's possible.
For an example, start typing a comment on any stackoverflow page with Javascript enabled and then navigate away from that page.
This worked for me:
function closeWin(){
var exit = confirm("Do you want to leave this window?");
if(exit==true){
//do something before closing;
}
}
body onbeforeunload="closeWin()"
This works too, unless for IE8
$(window).bind('beforeunload', function (e) {
// code to execute when browser is closed
e.$.post("func.php", { action: 'action', id_userMsg: '<?php echo $id_user; ?>' });
});