window.onunload

[stewartwebb]

Hi All,

I have a problem with window.onunload.
I have put the 'window.onunload' in our global javascript file and there is also a 'window.onunload' on the page. The problem is that it will perform the function from the page but not the function in the global javascript.
When I remove the function from the page the global function will then work.
It seems you can only have 1 'window.onunload' per page, is there a way round this to have 1 on the page and 1 on the global javascript?

Thanks

Stewart.

 

[dtqbterror]

Can you have the one on the page call the other one?

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[stewartwebb]

Sorry i'll explain a bit more.

We have a website (which has quite a few pages) and we now want to save a cookie everytime a user exits a page and read the cookie everytime a user enters a page.

So I tried to use the window.onload and window.onunload in the global javascript file. This is when I found that if the page the user is on already uses onload and onunload, the calls from the global javascript are ignored.

It would be a lot of work to change every page thats why i've tried to do the change using the global javascript file. So, is it not possible to achieve what i'm trying to do?

Thanks

Stewart.

 

[dtqbterror]

I don't believe so. From what I remember javascript follows an hierarchy tree when events are fired by a page. And will only fire to the event at the lowest point in the tree.

If I am wrong maybe someone else can give you a hand. I believe however that you are going to need to put the other javascript function in an include and then either call the included function within your page level method or chain the method calls together within the event itself.

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[stewartwebb]

Thats annoying, but thanks for the help.

Stewart.

 

[dtqbterror]

Yea but if it was easy everyone would do it and we would be paid the same as the Fry Guy at McDonalds.

You welcome however for what my comments were worth.

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