Question

I have this inside my $(document).ready function:

$(window).unload(function() {
            check_saved();
            });

check_saved() just triggers a dialog box that asks the user if they would like to save their form data before leaving the page. The browser displays the dialog box but then navigates away instantly. I want the browser to wait until the users clicks a button, just like it would for a normal alert(). How do I do this? Also, chrome seems to ignore the unload event? Any ideas?

Answer 1

How the user navigate to another page? Let say user is doing it by clicking some link on the page. then you can check in that action instead of page unload.

$('a').click(function(e){
 if(  check_saved()!=true){

    e.preventDefault();
    return false;   
  }

});