Triggering event when user leaves website

cgillin · May 26, 2004

I want to be able to trigger an event(open a new window) when a user leaves my website whether it be via closing the browser or going to another url that isn't part of my site. onUnload won't work because I don't want this event to occur everytime users leave a specific page.

If anyone has any ideas or have figured out this problem before please let me know.

Thanks for the help,
Chris

sedj · May 26, 2004

Use an "onunload" attribute :

Code:

<html>
<head>

<script language="Javascript">
function leavePage() {
  alert ('leaving');
}
</script>
</head>

<body onUnload="leavePage()">

</body>
</html>

cgillin · May 26, 2004

Guess I'm not really sure what that will do for me. I only want the event to occur when they leave my entire site, not specific pages. Another problem onunload creates is when submitting a form that is on pages which will cause an event to occur upon submission.

sedj · May 26, 2004

there is that - maybe use it a bit more intelligently (somehow ?!)

cgillin · May 26, 2004

So in other words you're not sure?

sedj · May 26, 2004

Indeed. Apologies, after re-reading your post I noticed you had already disposed on "unonload" as one of your options.

To be fair though, this is the only real method available to determine if a user is leaving a page - all be it to another site, or exiting the browser. Afer all, you cannot determine a user's thoughts eh ?! I'm if you give it some thought, you may be able to come up with an algorithm to obtain the correct behaviour...

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