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Window.onunload() Handler

Name

Window.onunload() Handler---executed when the browser leaves a page

Availability

Navigator 2.0, Internet Explorer 3.0

Synopsis

<BODY    a definition of the handler
    [ onUnload="JavaScript statements" ]
        ...
>
<FRAMESET    another way to define the handler
    [ onUnload="JavaScript statements" ]
       ...
>
window.onunload=handler-func    defining the handler directly
window.onunload();    an explicit invocation of the handler

Description

onunload() is an event handler invoked by the browser when it unloads (i.e., leaves) a document or a frameset. The onunload() handler is defined by the onUnload attribute of the <BODY> or <FRAMESET> HTML tags. The value of this attribute may be any number of JavaScript statements, separated by semicolons.

The onunload() event handler provides the opportunity to perform any necessary "clean-up" of the browser state before a new document is loaded. For example, an onunload() handler might restore the Window.defaultStatus property (the default message in the status line) to the empty string.

When the browser leaves a site using frames, the onunload() handlers for each frame will be invoked before the onunload() handler of the browser itself.

Usage

The onunload() handler is invoked when the user has instructed the browser to leave the current page and move somewhere else. Therefore, it is almost never appropriate to delay the loading of the desired new page by popping up dialog boxes (with Window.confirm() or Window.prompt() for example) from an onunload() event handler.

See Also

"Window", "Window.onunload()"

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