onlyican Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Hi We were trying to work out if we can prompt the user if they want to close a page before closing. I didn;t think it was possible. I can not remember what site I was on but when I clicked close, I got a prompt, Are you sure you want to leave.. Quick look at the code and came accross window.onbeforeunload Excellent, email that to me at work, look tomorrow. NOw I have forogotton the website and can not get this to work Within the head tag I have window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit; function confirmExit() { return "You have attempted to leave this page. If you have made any changes to the fields without clicking the Save button, your changes will be lost. Are you sure you want to exit this page?"; } But nothing happens. Please help me to where I am going wrong. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181843-solved-windowonbeforeunload/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit; function confirmExit() { confirm("You have attempted to leave this page. If you have made any changes to the fields without clicking the Save button, your changes will be lost. Are you sure you want to exit this page?"); } Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181843-solved-windowonbeforeunload/#findComment-959046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyican Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 Thanks, I tried that and that didn't work either. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181843-solved-windowonbeforeunload/#findComment-959050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I have this on my site, it is inside of <body> and </body> <script type="text/javascript"> var workIsDone = false; window.onbeforeunload = confirmBrowseAway; function confirmBrowseAway() { if (!workIsDone) { return "CAREFUL! Discard this entry?\n" + "This blog entry will not be saved."; } } function save() { workIsDone = true; } function disableForm(theform) { if (document.all || document.getElementById) { for (i = 0; i < theform.length; i++) { var tempobj = theform.elements[i]; if (tempobj.type.toLowerCase() == "submit" || tempobj.type.toLowerCase() == "reset") tempobj.disabled = true; } return true; } } </script> Then on the html form I incorperate the save() function so if they user wanted to save it it saves and then the workisdone is set to true and it allows you to save and move on. <form name="form" method="POST" onSubmit="save(); return disableForm(this);" action="your action here"> The disable form helps prevent multiple sibmits etc, and can be omitted. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181843-solved-windowonbeforeunload/#findComment-959390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyican Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 Strange, Went back to the code today to try your code. As I hit refresh, my code seemed to work. Cheers anyway. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181843-solved-windowonbeforeunload/#findComment-959894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 When modyfing JavaScript code remember to refresh your cache. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/181843-solved-windowonbeforeunload/#findComment-959899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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