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Can I prevent onbeforeload from being called when clicking on an anchor tag?

Answer 1

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Try setting href="#" instead, and return false in the clickHandler function (or prevent the default event by event.preventDefault())

Tobias Baaz 2009-11-16 13:40:23

Answer 2

A:

You could wrap the event assignment in condition browser logic using jQuery's browser helper:

http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.browser.version

Josh Pearce 2009-11-16 13:43:01

Answer 3

A:

Try this, tested in FF3.5 and IE8

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function()
            {
                $("#anchor_id").click(clickHandler);
                window.onbeforeunload = function()
                {
                    return "There are some unsaved changes on page.";
                };
            });

            function clickHandler()
            {
                /* hide/show some hidden div's */
                $("body").append("<p>Hi there</p>");
                return false;
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a id="anchor_id" href="javascript: void(0);">Click Me</a>
    </body>
</html>

Ambrosia 2009-11-16 15:10:01

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