Lloyd Hassell — Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:46:04 +0000

The best thing to do in this situation is to use a popup window. Collect your data in this window then close it manually after the user has finished.

You can set the 'onUnload' event handler to check when closing the window that the form has been sucessfully completed. If you need more help I can explain further.

Vincent Puglia — Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:09:35 +0000

Hi,

You would be better served with a server-side solution -- a perl script (or somesuch) that checks the server status codes -- or a server session variable.

Vinny

dhaliwam — Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:08:54 +0000

I am writting one application, I have lots of data in the memory, users can save data in the memory before writing to the database, so in case if user try to close window without saving data to the database, I want to throw an error message.

One possibility is to use onUnload event, but its going to call that event if user try to go to another page, that not what I want to do, I want to call a JavaScript function only when user tries to close that window.

Vincent Puglia — Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:49:38 +0000

As far as I know, there is no event handler that can trap the browser's buttons. You might make the window full-screen so the browser is not readily-accessible, but that only hinders clicking them.

What are you trying to do?

Vinny

dhaliwam — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:22:50 +0000

Thanks, but can you please expalain your answer.

Vincent Puglia — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:37:37 +0000

easy answer -- not really