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Old March 2nd, 2013, 04:24 PM
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jQuery - Alert on Browser's close button click

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I need to find browser close button click event in my web application. I need to show some alert message on that event. I tried to do it using window.onbeforeunload event, but it gets called on every page navigation or page refresh
I need to execute that function only on close button click event

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Hi,

don't do it. When you annoy your users with stupid alert messages blocking their whole browser window, you'll prevent nobody from leaving your site, but many will never want to come back.

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I think it depends on which browser the client is using. I use this for one of my sites...

PHP Code:
<body onbeforeunload="ConfirmClose()" onUnload="ConfirmClose();"

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