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Issue with onbeforeunload event handling in firefox

Answer 1

A:

just add mousemove handler that will store mouse position in variable, like this:

<body onbeforeunload="test(event);" onmousemove="storeMouse(event);">

var mouse;
function storeMouse(e)
{
    if(!e) e = window.event;
    mouse = {clientX: e.clientX, clientX:e.clientY};
}


function test(e){
     alert(mouse.clientX);
}

Alex Reitbort 2010-08-30 10:16:35

Eifel 2010-08-30 11:47:09

Answer 2

A:

Thanks Alex, the above code returns the mouse cordinates. But i can't generalise a rule for detecting the browser close with the mouse coordinates.i.e.one time when I close the browser, clientX & clientY alerts someting like(0,345)..The next time when I close the same browser it alerts (372,45)..I would like to get the coorinates next to the "close(X)" button of the browser so that I can generalise something like the below code to work in FireFox (as the below works only in IE):

 if((window.event.clientX <0 || window.event.clientY <0) 
      {
            window.open("...")
      }

Since I am getting extremely different ranges of coordinates each time the mouse points to close button, I cannot write a condition similar to the above. Please can you shed some light on this?

Eifel 2010-08-30 11:30:21

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