get refresh event from page

Question

How to get event of page refresh. i want to detect that user has refreshed page

Answer 1

not sure how to do it in Jquery

window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
  var e = e || window.event;

  // For IE and Firefox
  if (e) {
    e.returnValue = 'Any string';
  }

  // For Safari
  return 'Any string';
};

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.onbeforeunload

Answer 2

On $(document).load()

• read a var current_page from cookie
• if it's the same as your current page, you have a refresh
• write current page to var current_page in cookie