check out the ONUNLOAD action and you should be able to use that in 
conjunction with the link followed.

At 22:31 07/06/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Howdy all,
>
>is there anyway to detect that a user is leaving your site. What I would
>like to do is have a pop-up appear when a user leaves my site either by
>pressing the back button or typing in a new URL. Is it possible to
>determine the URL being pointed at by the 'Back' button?
>
>--Tripp
>
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