onunload issues

Tim Arview · Dec 17, 2006

Hi,

I'm trying to create an exit popup that doesn't require anything added
to the body tag. In other words, I don't want to say <body
onunload="foo">. I just want to have window.onunload="foo" in the
<script> tag.

However, when I do that, it launches foo as soon as the page loads and
does NOT launch when the page is unloaded.

Why is this? And is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

This is a high priority project, so I really need it fixed ASAP.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Laurent Bugnion · Dec 17, 2006

Hi,

Tim said:
Hi,

I'm trying to create an exit popup that doesn't require anything added
to the body tag. In other words, I don't want to say <body
onunload="foo">. I just want to have window.onunload="foo" in the
<script> tag.

However, when I do that, it launches foo as soon as the page loads and
does NOT launch when the page is unloaded.

Why is this? And is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

This is a high priority project, so I really need it fixed ASAP.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

You're having syntax problems.

If you use the "onunload" attribute of the body tag, you must use <body
onunload="foo();"> (function call).

If however you assign the foo function to the onunload event, you must
assign the function itself, not a string.

window.onunload = foo;

HTH,
Laurent

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Tim Arview

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