Is there any cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery code to detect if the browser or a browser tab is being closed, but not due to a link being clicked?
Is there any cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery code to detect if the browser or a browser
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Is there any cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery code to detect if the browser or a browser tab is being closed, but not due to a link being clicked?
If I get you correctly, you want to know when a tab/window is effectively closed. Well, AFAIK the only way in JavaScript to detect that is to use either
onunloadoronbeforeunloadevents.Unfortunately (or fortunately?), those events are also fired when you leave a site over a link or your browsers back button. So this is the best answer I can give, I don’t think you can natively detect a pure
closein JavaScript. Correct me if I’m wrong here.