How can I recoginize a toolbar back button action in onbeforeunload?

[stormguts]

I need to run a javascript whenever a toolbar event happened except for the back button in the onbeforeunload. any idea how to recognize the event was caused by a back button?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Unless browsers expose toolbar events to the document (which AFAIK, none do - after all, why should they?), I don't think you would be able to do this.

There is no way that you can tell if a page was reached by the back button, or some other action. You can guess using a few clues such as the referrer, but you can never be 100% sure.

Dan

[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[stormguts]

Thanks. Is there a way to tell what the next screen to be loaded is during the onbeforeunload event? if so maybe I could determine that the domain is different from the history.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I don't think so, no. Getting useful information from a browser's history object is like getting blood from a stone, I'd say!

Dan



[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]