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onUnload

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:43 am
by moiseszaragoza
I was wandering if there are any subset events for onUnload?

I mean what happends during onUnload.

and if i can call a function at a paricular point of the onUnload process
Thanks

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:52 pm
by Chris Corbyn
onunload is pretty much unreliable these days because it was so badly abused in the 90s and early "naughties". There's an onbeforeunload which fires just as the X is clicked and before the UnloadEvent fires. One thing you will definitely not be able to do is to open a window, or cancel the close operation with onunload. onbeforeunload can successfully be used to make a confirmation dialog that the user wishes to close the window, but again, no new windows can be made.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:00 pm
by moiseszaragoza
Thanks for your help

what i am tring to do is find out were the people are going when they leve the site

so i have

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<body  onbeforeunload="onbeforeunload()" onUnload="onUnload()"> 
onbeforeunload hapends before unload I'm trying to get the verry last thing posible

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<script type="text/javascript">

function onbeforeunload(){
	alert(document.location); //gives me my site (I want were they are going)


	}

function onUnload(){
	alert(document.location);//gives me my site (I want were they are going)



	
}
</script>