How can I prevent [removed] from being triggered by [removed] href links in IE?

Question

I\'m building a fail safe for my form that is going to warn users that if they leave the page their form data will be lost (similar to what gmail does).

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Answer 1

I just ran into a similar problem and found a very easy solution:

$("a").mousedown(function() {
    $(window).unbind();
});

This will remove the onbeforeunload event just before the click event is triggered.