Capture window close event using Jquery or JS

Asked Oct 25 '16 at 08:25

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I am trying to refresh parent tab that opened a window. In order to do that I am trying to catch close event of the tab so that once I catch the event, I will refresh parent window and this tab will get closed

<script type="text/javascript">
    window.onbeforeunload = function(){
     alert("test");
    };
</script>

Whatever I do, I always get this message.

If I comment return "test" I don't get the message, that means the code does something which eventually causes the given alert. How to catch the tab/current window close event in JS or jquery?

PS: Checked solutions on Run JavaScript code on window close or page refresh? and How to capture the browser window close event? , they are not working anymore. Probably, newer versions have something to do with this.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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asked Oct 25 '16 at 08:25

Danyal Sandeelo

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you only have `onbeforeunload` event available for this – Max Koretskyi Oct 25 '16 at 08:31
tried `$(window).unload(function() { alert("test"); }` but no luck – Danyal Sandeelo Oct 25 '16 at 08:32
what do you want to do? why do you use alert inside the callback? – Max Koretskyi Oct 25 '16 at 08:35
it's just for testing purpose, I will reload the parent page instead of alert @Maximus – Danyal Sandeelo Oct 25 '16 at 08:36
That is not possible for security reasons. `alert` is blocked on Chrome when called on `onbeforeunload` event. – AMD Oct 25 '16 at 08:38
[The HTML5 specification states that calls to window.alert(), window.confirm(), and window.prompt() methods may be ignored during this event](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEventHandlers/onbeforeunload) – Max Koretskyi Oct 25 '16 at 08:38
tried..not working @Maximus – Danyal Sandeelo Oct 25 '16 at 08:41
@Amden I see, excluding alert test of the things can be done right? – Danyal Sandeelo Oct 25 '16 at 08:48
@DanyalSandeelo, I don't understand what's not working – Max Koretskyi Oct 25 '16 at 08:50
@Maximus I tried to alert, i didn't alert, it should have alerted. I tried to update value of a field on close event, it didn't work.. – Danyal Sandeelo Oct 25 '16 at 08:51
Try to put the `debugger;` statement into the callback for testing purposes and open your dev tools :) – ˈvɔlə Oct 25 '16 at 08:55
@DanyalSandeelo, I posted a link which said the `HTML5` says that `alert` call could be ignored, and it's probably is. Do you want to show some message before window close? – Max Koretskyi Oct 25 '16 at 09:02

Capture window close event using Jquery or JS

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