onbeforeunload and links 1

[pfrancis]

Ok. I did a search to figure out how to stop a window from closing and I found the onbeforeunload with the dialog box. This works to stop the window from closing, but if a link is clicked it still goes through the unload and still prompts, even though the window isn't closing. Is there a way to use the onbeforeunload to stop the window from closing, but still allow for links to be used? Thanks for the help.

 

[adam0101]

How about something like this?

<a href="page.html" onclick="document.onbeforeunload=''">

You could probably add it to every link on the page at onload by looping through the links array.

Adam
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[pfrancis]

Thanks adam0101 for your help, but that didn't work. It did make me find another way to do it though. Here is what I used.

This is at the top of the page:

<script language="javascript">
ClosingVar = true
window.onbeforeunload = ExitCheck;
function ExitCheck()
{
if (ClosingVar == true) {
	ExitCheck = false
	return "This is the message.";   
}
}
</script>

This is how my links look:

<a href="page.html" onClick="ClosingVar=false">

Hopefully it will help someone else too.
Again, Thanks.