MacinTosh/JavaScript question

tboerner · Dec 12, 2001

The following code brings up a message box on my PC (MS IE 5.0), but doesn't function for the Mac. Any ideas on what I can do? The code does fire on the Mac, but return statement doesn't do anything.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
var submitted;
submitted = false;
function window.onbeforeunload() {
if (submitted == false) {
return "If you leave, changes will not be saved.";
}
}
</SCRIPT><

BigBadDave · Dec 12, 2001

What you need is :

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
var submitted;
submitted = false;
function window.onbeforeunload() {
if (submitted == false) {
alert('If you leave, changes will not be saved.');
}
}
</SCRIPT> Regards

Big Dave

davidbyng@hotmail.com

tboerner · Dec 12, 2001

Dave,

I don't think the alert will work. The way it works (on the PC), a choice of continuing (or not) is given. Alerts don't give choices.

Tim

tboerner · Dec 12, 2001

Got it working with this.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
function closeIt()
{
event.returnValue = "Any string value here forces a dialog box to appear before closing the window.";
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onbeforeunload="closeIt()">

BigBadDave · Dec 12, 2001

Try this :

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
var submitted;
submitted = false;
function foo() {
if (submitted == false) {
if (confirm("If you leave, changes will not be saved.&quot

)
return true;
else
return false;
}
}
</SCRIPT>
<body onbeforeunload="return foo()"> Regards

Big Dave

davidbyng@hotmail.com

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