onbeforeunload

How can I remove prompt on unload event using javascript? thanks in advance... hm, I don't want to show the prompt when firing the custom function for the unlaod event of the body... Is it possible? so here's my code: window.onbeforeunload = function() { //cancel the unload //cancel prompt } Make sure your event handler doesn't have a return statement in it. Returning from the function triggers the conformation message. Update based on the code comments in the edited question: If the user does something to leave the page, then you can tell the browser to ask them if they are sure. You cannot

I need to warn users that they will lose information when leaving a page. This is easily done using the onbeforeunload event. My problem is that I want to take some action if the user decides to leave. Here's an example (I'm using jquery because it's loaded anyway): $(window).on('beforeunload', function(e){ return "Do you really want to leave?"; }); What I would like to do is something like this (this code doesn't work, I know, it's just an example to illustrate what I'm trying to do): $(window).on('beforeunload', function(e){ // Ask for user confirmation var bUserAnswer = confirm("Do you

I am using onbeforeunload event to send ajax request to perform some clean up task. When I am using onbeforeunload, it shows the confirmation dialog on closing the tab. What I want is not to show any confirmation dialog and just send the clean up request. Following is the script I am using. window.onbeforeunload = unloadFunction; function unloadFunction() { var test_id = $('#test_id').val(); jQuery.ajax({ url: "/test/cleanup/" + test_id, cache: false }).done(function () { return false; }); return false; } Is there any way I can suppress the confirmation dialog? As per some suggestions, I have

I am trying to dismiss "Confirm Navigation" popup. This is how it looks like in Chrome. To see the popup: require "watir-webdriver" browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto "http://www.gravityforms.com/demo/wp-admin/admin.php?page=gf_new_form" browser.text_field(:id => "user_login").set "demo" browser.text_field(:id => "user_pass").set "demo" browser.button(:id => "wp-submit").click browser.refresh At the moment I override onbeforeunload when I visit the page, as suggested at http://watirwebdriver.com/javascript-dialogs/ browser.execute_script("window.onbeforeunload = function() {};") So, the

Just because you don't see use for a feature doesn't mean it isn't useful. The Stack Exchange network, GMail, Grooveshark, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail use the onbeforeunload prompt to prevent/warn users that they are leaving a page after they have begun editing something. Oh yah, nearly every single desktop program that accepts saveable user-input data utilizes this prompt-user-before-leaving UX pattern. I have a function which behaves similarly to this one: window.onbeforeunload = function(){ // only prompt if the flag has been set... if(promptBeforeLeaving === true){ return "Are you sure you

I'm working in a Flex4 application, using javascript, in the "index.template.html" document. I'm having an issue being able to use onbeforeunload with Firefox. The application works perfectly in IE, but the exact same one doesn't sit well with FF. (See below) <script type="text/javascript"> window.onbeforeunload=before; window.onunload=after; function before(evt) { var flex=document.$(application)||window.$(application); flex.unloadMethod(); //custom method to log out the user } function after(evt) { } </script> From what I've found, FF doesn't seem to register onbeforeunload events, so I