mailto link (in chrome) is triggering [removed] - can i prevent this?

Question

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Hi all. I have a form page where i\'ve put a window.onbeforeunload co

Answer 1

Building off of epascarello's solution, the following JQuery code should do the trick:

    var ignore_onbeforeunload = false;
    $('a[href^=mailto]').on('click',function(){
        ignore_onbeforeunload = true;
    });

    window.onbeforeunload = function() {
        if (!ignore_onbeforeunload){
            return "Halt! you are not supposed to leave!";
        }
        ignore_onbeforeunload = false;
    };