Is it possible to show a DIV when leaving a page? I have a form that needs to be shown when the user leaves the page.
I can make it so the popup appears upon loading of the page but not when leaving.
Thanks, Mani
www.jsfiddle.net/Sjk9E/4
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1please fiddle your code to elaborate more on this. – Ganesh Pandhere Sep 17 '13 at 12:42
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1Use the `window.onunload` event. – Rory McCrossan Sep 17 '13 at 12:43
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okay! where is the code stuff you've tried? – Jai Sep 17 '13 at 12:44
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As far i can tell, there is no cross browser solution to do that – A. Wolff Sep 17 '13 at 12:46
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But the user will never see the div since the page is unloading and it is milliseconds of time! – epascarello Sep 17 '13 at 12:48
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http://jsfiddle.net/Sjk9E/4/ - for some reason in the fiddle the X close button isn't working – user2718660 Sep 17 '13 at 12:48
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If I get you correctly, you want to know when a tab/window is effectively closed. Well, afaik your only way in Javascript to detect that kind of stuff are onunload & onbeforeunload events.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), those events are also fired when you leave a site over a link or your browsers back button. So this is the best answer I can give, I don't think you can natively detect a pure close in Javascript. Correct me if I'm wrong here.
javascript detect browser close tab/close browser
3 seconds of google. Just saying.
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6Please mark as duplicate and leave a comment instead of copying a whole answer. – insertusernamehere Sep 17 '13 at 12:45
