java script problem

[Sonia Gupta]

i have a java script confirm message box , which i am invoking at the page closing.The window is closing at both the buttons ok and cancel.y it is happening?how i can I keep the window open , ok clicking the cancel button.

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Did you consider using onBeforeUnload instead of confirm? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536907.aspx[^]

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[Sandeep Kumar]

Hi here is the code.......... function close() { event.returnValue = "Any string value here forces a dialog box to appear before closing the window."; }

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[Sonia Gupta]

in body tag , i am calling onBeforeUnload() = "abc();" function abc() { if( confirm('ok')) return true; still it does not keep the window open , while i am clicking the cancel button. }

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[Sandeep Kumar]

Hi anthor way of doing the things..... function close() { return window.confirm("Click ok to close"); }

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[Sonia Gupta]

even now, the moment , i click the cancel button, the window is vanishing. please help.

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[Paddy Boyd]

I think you're missing the else part of that if, where it will return false if not ok...

[Guffa]

The window object already has a method named close, so that is not a good method name.

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[Guffa]

Sonia Gupta wrote:

in body tag , i am calling onBeforeUnload() = "abc();"

Attributes in an html tag doesn't have parentheses. Also, you have to return the value from the function call to the event: onbeforeunload="return abc();"

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[Guffa]

Sandeep Kumar Vuppala wrote:

function close()

(Not a good name, but I already mentioned that elsewhere in the thread.)

Sandeep Kumar Vuppala wrote:

event.returnValue

The window.event object only exists in Internet Explorer. Just return the value from the function:

function closingMessage() {
return "Any string value here forces a dialog box to appear before closing the window.";
}

Sandeep Kumar Vuppala wrote:

You have to pass the value returned from the function on to the event: onbeforeunload="return closingMessage();"

--- "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." -- Douglas Adams