How can I detect when the user is leaving my site, not just going to a different page?

Question

I have a handler for onbeforeunload

window.onbeforeunload = unloadMess;
function unloadMess(){
  var conf = confirm(\"Wait! Before you go, please share your          


        

Answer 1

I've got one idea, but I don't know if it's work. My suggestion is, add each link an onClick event with a function call. That function reads just the href attribute and store into a variable with global scope.

var clickedHrefAttrValue = "";
function getClickUrl(currentLink)
{
   clickedHrefAttrValue = $(currentLink).attr("href");
   return true;
}

The html for the a tags must be looks like following:

Linktext

and in your given function:

function getClickUrl()
{
   if (clickedHrefAttrValue.indexOf("" > -1)
   {
     //what ever you want do to
   }
}

It is just an idea, but I think it is worth to try it.