CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascript
timu
timu

Reputation: 838

Detecting if browser navigating to another page

I need to check if browser is navigating to another page or closing. My idea is;

  1. Create global variable var isNavigating = false;
  2. Bind click event to make isNavigating = true of every anchor which will navigate to another page
  3. Check if isNavigating true on body's unload event.

Any other ideas? Recommendations?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 22179

Answers (1)

Yiğit Yener
Yiğit Yener

Reputation: 5986

You can do this by the following script.

<script type="text/javascript"> 
     window.onbeforeunload = function(){ return;} 
</script>

However if you plan to cancel the navigaion, just don't bother. It's not possible as far as i know.

Code below checks if the user has clicked a link.

var checkAnchorClick = false;

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("a").live("click", function () {
        checkAnchorClick = true;
    });
});

$(window).unload(function () {
    if (checkAnchorClick)
        alert("User clicked a link...");
    else
        alert("Something else...");
});

Upvotes: 13

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