stopping a page refresh
by gregs on Oct.21, 2005, under JavaScript, browser
I found myself having to trap a user attempting to refresh a page for one of our web apps. After a little bit of digging I stumbled across this solution:
CODE:
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<script type="text/javascript">
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<!--
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window.onbeforeunload = unloadMess;
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function unloadMess()
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{
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mess = "You are about to refresh the screen and will loose all of your changes.nAre you sure you want to do so?" return mess;
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}
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//-->
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</script>
To use it simply embed or include it into your template
Eventhough the article says this is a IE specific event/feature it also works in FireFox. You should be aware that whenever the user leaves the page, they will be prompted about their impeding data loss, which can get a little tedious while developing.
Again this became a handy feature for our AJAX apps as most of the processing is done in the background without the page reload, a user could accidentally hit the back button and loose where they were at.
