Disable beforeunload when submitting a form with pure JS?

Question

How can I, without using any third-party libraries such as jQuery, disable the onbeforeunload event when submitting a form?

I have:

HTML:

<form id="confirm_form">
    <input id="confirm_btn" type="submit" value="Confirm Action">
</form>

JS:

function onLeave() {
    return "Are you sure you wish to leave without performing the action?";
}
window.onbeforeunload = onLeave;

This question is not a duplicate of How to disable beforeunload action when user is submitting a form? or window.onbeforeunload - Only show warning when not submitting form because those are specifically dealing with jQuery.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '20 at 20:58

document.getElementById("confirm_form").addEventListener("submit", function() {
    window.onbeforeunload = null;
});

Or, if you want to do this for every form in the page:

function remove_onbeforeunload() {
    window.onbeforeunload = null;
}
let forms = document.getElementsByTagName("form");
for(let i = 0; i < forms.length; i++) {
    forms.item(i).addEventListener("submit", remove_onbeforeunload);
}

Disable beforeunload when submitting a form with pure JS?

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