I'm now dealing with a client request to open a form when the user leave the page.
Can that be done?
I think you are looking for
onbeforeunload event
An event that fires before the unload
event when the page is unloaded.
It seems to be impossible to create my own form and override onbeforeunload or anything else. I guess blocking it is the right thing though..
What we did is to pop a form and use the regular onbeforeunload. if the user wants to go - he will. But if he stays - he will get the questionnaire.
You can see the issue here too: onbeforeunload confirmation screen customization
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Trying to invalidate the session once click on the browser back button as well as browser close using jQuery.
How to capture the browser back button event and browser close event? Is there any advantage with respect to javascript?
Any help appreciated.
Hopefully this helps you:
http://api.jquery.com/unload/
The unload event is sent to the window element when the user navigates
away from the page. This could mean one of many things. The user could
have clicked on a link to leave the page, or typed in a new URL in the
address bar. The forward and back buttons will trigger the event.
Closing the browser window will cause the event to be triggered. Even
a page reload will first create an unload event.
I am looking to develop a small popup message which acts similar to the window.beforeunload function, to notify the user, that if they leave the current page, they will lose all of their data.
However the issue with the beforeunload event is it fires to often.
I would like to have the popup message fire only when a user closes the page, or clicks a link which takes them away from the current page, to ensure they are aware that their current action will result in the loss of the form data they have entered so far.
However beforeunload event goes further to fire when they refresh the page, which is not needed for this case, and also when the forum is submitted.
Could anyone advise me on the best way to develop this. I thought about using a basic confirm dialog and have it fire under the right circumstances, however is it possible to know if the user is refreshing the page, and if the forum is being submitted (without jQuery).
How can I have this dialog fire at the appropriate times?
Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible. The page unload events are very limited, for security reasons.
If you only want it to appear if the user added or changed formdata, why not check for changes in the data? If yes then return the question on beforeunload, if not do nothing.
Assuming that the form isn't too complicated, you could save form data by using Ajax call, which means there will not be a page reload. So, beforeunload will then behave as it was designed to.
I'm using a script to fade out the page content when user is actually leaving the page.
For that I tried using the beforeunload event.
It works fine when I navigate through my site, however I also found it triggering on application launch, such as skype button. Even though I never left the page yet...
What is the best way to validate onbeforeunload event against premature triggering?
I guess I should still use my:
$(window).one('beforeunload', function() {
// need to make some condition, if really leaving the page - execute
$('html.nojs').stop(true,false).css('overflow','hidden').animate({opacity:0},2000);
});
But I would need to use some condition... just cannot think of any...
EDIT:
Rmoved the link to the site
The animation does work, but if you go to any specific product and click skype button there you will see the it makes poo...
EDIT2:
The solution to this problem is to detect what triggered an before unload event. As I said, by writing some condition inside that call.
We must find a way to find out whether the event was triggered by external application call (such as skype button that tries to open application) or was it something else, like... for example:( link click, a button submit, script for location change, starting a search, hitting back/forward, or refreshing the page).
This the accepted answer for this question
Capture user response when using window.onbeforeunload
If you need to know what triggered the onbeforeunload event, you can have a global variable, then set it to true when you click on the Skype button. Then check it inside your onbeforeload event.
I want to show a popup when a user close the browser and that popup will redirect to some google survey that we need to do.
Currently by using onbeforeunload function in JavaScript it's prompting me the popup but I only need popup when the user closes the browser or they enter a new url.
Is there any way to prevent this function to not fire when page is refreshed, or user goes back or forward and if it can be done then how will I redirect to a survey page. Or if we can't prevent then there is any logic to do this.
No, this is not possible. These events are outside your control for security reasons.
You're probably best off finding a different solution for your problem.
What I mean is - when user clicks on some browser page reload/refresh button we do not want to reload page - we want to capture that event and call some function (for simple example one with some alert). I need it to work in IE6 and up and Chrome and Firefox3+ of course. How to do such thing (not using jQuery and other libs)?
It's not possible.
You can detect when an unload occurs, but you can't detect what caused the unload and you can't cancel it without the user's consent. For instance, typing a new address in the address box, clicking a link, submitting a form, selecting a bookmark or refreshing the page will all fire an onbeforeunload event.
You cannot. You can't change the operating system functionality from within any browser except IE.