As far as I know, there is no event handler that can trap the browser's buttons. You might make the window full-screen so the browser is not readily-accessible, but that only hinders clicking them.
What are you trying to do?
Vinny
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I am writting one application, I have lots of data in the memory, users can save data in the memory before writing to the database, so in case if user try to close window without saving data to the database, I want to throw an error message.
One possibility is to use onUnload event, but its going to call that event if user try to go to another page, that not what I want to do, I want to call a JavaScript function only when user tries to close that window.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 14:09 — 15th July 2000.
You would be better served with a server-side solution -- a perl script (or somesuch) that checks the server status codes -- or a server session variable.
Vinny
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the blades of grass cut me still
Lloyd Hassell posted this at 15:46 — 15th July 2000.
The best thing to do in this situation is to use a popup window. Collect your data in this window then close it manually after the user has finished.
You can set the 'onUnload' event handler to check when closing the window that the form has been sucessfully completed. If you need more help I can explain further.
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Vincent Puglia posted this at 18:37 — 13th July 2000.
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easy answer -- not really
dhaliwam posted this at 19:22 — 13th July 2000.
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Thanks, but can you please expalain your answer.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 12:49 — 14th July 2000.
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Hi
As far as I know, there is no event handler that can trap the browser's buttons. You might make the window full-screen so the browser is not readily-accessible, but that only hinders clicking them.
What are you trying to do?
Vinny
Where the world once stood
the blades of grass cut me still
dhaliwam posted this at 13:08 — 14th July 2000.
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I am writting one application, I have lots of data in the memory, users can save data in the memory before writing to the database, so in case if user try to close window without saving data to the database, I want to throw an error message.
One possibility is to use onUnload event, but its going to call that event if user try to go to another page, that not what I want to do, I want to call a JavaScript function only when user tries to close that window.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 14:09 — 15th July 2000.
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Hi,
You would be better served with a server-side solution -- a perl script (or somesuch) that checks the server status codes -- or a server session variable.
Vinny
Where the world once stood
the blades of grass cut me still
Lloyd Hassell posted this at 15:46 — 15th July 2000.
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The best thing to do in this situation is to use a popup window. Collect your data in this window then close it manually after the user has finished.
You can set the 'onUnload' event handler to check when closing the window that the form has been sucessfully completed. If you need more help I can explain further.
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