onunload message needed but not when they click internal links

Question

okay i have a question...

i need an message script that only will come up when people are really leaving the current webpage so not the current website...

so actualli when people are leaving the website entirelly the message will come up, they need to press the ok button to stay at the current page and cancel to leave the entire website..

the script may not run when people are actually stay on the website or when the click on internal links/pages..

does that make sence/? and can it be done? who know such code?

Answer 1

Check out this very basic example solution. It sets the onbeforeunload handler but then removes it if the user clicks an internal link. Below is a generic version of the code from the example solution.

HTML:

<a href="internal_link.html">internal link</a>
<a href="http://www.example.com"&gt;external link</a>

JS (uses jQuery):

window.onbeforeunload = function(){
    return "Are you sure you want to leave our website?";
}
$(function(){
    $('a').click(function(){
        if (this.href.match(location.host)) { //this test could be improved upon
            //alert('Please continue on to our site.');
            window.onbeforeunload = null;
        } else {
            //alert('You are about to leave our website.');
        }
    });
});