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by **ravindralokhande** on Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:55 am

i want to display a new pop up on window close. The problem i am facing is that when user refreshes page instead of closing it then also that pop up comes up.

code i have written:

<head>
<script language="javascript">
function abc()
{
window.open('a.html');
}
</script>
</head>
<body onunload=abc()>
</body>

by **leonard** on Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:01 pm

I don't think this can be done with plain HTML/JavaScript, not even using cookies.

The problem is the refresh-button triggers the onunload function. Using cookies you could trigger the refresh-button and not trigger the full-exit (but not the other way round).

I think this would have to be done with external browser components (applet/flash?), but anyway a popup onunload is a very nasty thing, because normally a user wants to fully exit a page when he closes the window. This code is somehow an equivilant to spam-mails and not that of a user-friendly site.
Anyway, popups are blocked in the most browsers (which is good). There is therefore no way to guarantee the popup will really be displayed.

If you find a way to do this, please paste it here, I would be interested (even if I don't agree with the use of popups on window-close).

cheers!
- leonard

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