Page Events

aware · November 7th, 2006, 08:19 AM

Hi

I have a page (1 big form) that can either be
1. Closed with the X
2. Exited to previous page with an icon
3. Refreshed

There is validation on the form for fields and warnings if page is closed without saving. THis is done with Validationcheck() code on the onclick events AND onbeforeunload body event.

What is happening is I get 2 warnings for the Exit & refresh, as the local event is fired, then the unload.

Does anyone have a workaround?

Thanks

Andy

joefawcett · November 7th, 2006, 08:49 AM

I think onbeforeunload always runs, obviouslu onunload only runs if onbeforeunload does not cancel it. Why not just use onbeforeunload? Otherwise have a global Boolean variable, hasValidated, that you set in onbeforeunload. Then check its value in onunload before validating a second time.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

aware · November 8th, 2006, 07:01 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Global variable is what I'll do.

<body onLoad="window.validated=false" onBeforeUnload="if (!window.validated) window.returnValue=msg">

And I will set the validated flag in my validation script.

Andy