Doing an action when I close a window

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Hello, I'm designing an app but I want to know what event I should use for that an action will be done when I'll close the window.

I've tried with window.close but it does the action when I load/go to the website and no when i want to close it, that is what i want that it does.

Posted 10-Dec-10 11:14am

Ángel Manuel García Carmona

Updated 10-Dec-10 11:36am

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My problem was solved assigning the lines like a function (JAVASCRIPT).
The problem was in an ASPX page, and it was that with this method, the action ocurred when i loaded/opened the website and no when i closed it, but adding a function, i haven't problems (like in this block and the links that you has given me):

function closeIt() {
            alert('HI');
        }
        window.onbeforeunload = closeIt;

and no like this (like this i had the problem):

window.onbeforeunload = alert('Bye, bye');

Thanks very much for your help
Regards

Posted 11-Dec-10 2:44am

Ángel Manuel García Carmona

Updated 11-Dec-10 2:46am

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E.F. Nijboer · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-10T11:36:00

Solution 1

This link will explain it including an example:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536907.aspx[^]

Good luck!

Posted 10-Dec-10 11:36am

E.F. Nijboer

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Ángel Manuel García Carmona 10-Dec-10 17:38pm

Sorry, but the event of the links that you has given me, does the action when i open/load the website and no when i want to close it.

E.F. Nijboer 10-Dec-10 17:45pm

How do you mean? onbeforeunload and unload are fired when you leave/close the current page. The onload is fired when the page is opened and received completely.

Have a look at the list of events yourself:
DHTML Events: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533051%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

onunload: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536973%28v=VS.85%29.aspxon

Ángel Manuel García Carmona 10-Dec-10 18:23pm

With this events, the action will be done when i load the page and no when i will close it

Dr.Walt Fair, PE 10-Dec-10 19:28pm

I think you are confusing onunload and onload.

E.F. Nijboer 11-Dec-10 4:30am

I agree with Wait Fair Jr. You can try the code example given and have a look at what it does:
http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/onbeforeunload.htm