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Asked: 2026-05-22T23:52:03+00:00

I have a website with master page. I want to catch a user trying

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I have a website with master page. I want to catch a user trying to close the browser/tab. When I try using onunload in the body tag, it fires not only when I try closing the browser, but also when I navigate to another page.

Any idea how to only catch the event of closing the browser?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t distinguish closing the browser from navigating to another page. In both cases the current page is unloaded.

    update: maybe you can handle some cases with some jquery, i.e. whenever a link is clicked, set some flag to be able to distinguish it from closing the window or entering a new URL:

    <body onunload="checkForClose()">

...

<script>
var _isNavigation = false;
$(document).ready(function () {
    // whenever a link is clicked set _isNavigation to true
    $('a').click(function () {
        _isNavigation = true;
    });
});

function checkForClose() {
    // show an alert if _isNavigation is not set
    if (!_isNavigation) alert("closing the browser (maybe)");
}
</script>
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