Hi all,
How can I handle the closing event of the browser window?
In other words, if there's no event in javascript for browser window closing, then what do you do when you want to call a server page and pass some info to it, just before the client's page is closed?
(onBlur,onunload,and some other events wouldn't work here or the do the job but woudn't do it exclusively.I mean they might happen on some other ocasions too)

You have to make do with onunload or in some browsers onbeforeunload.



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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

As I mentioned before Unload event ain't just for browser closing. It's also trigers when your refresh or traverse through url links and some other situations...

I missed what you were asking, yes it happens however you leave the page. You can't tell directly. Depending on your set up you could keep send the data in the onunload and then server side you check in the session_end event if anything needs saving. It's a difficult scenario given the stateless nature of HTTP and how browser based app work.



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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)