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Jquery Effect Onunload

I would like to use the jquery slideUp effect when the user navigates away from the page just to make the page look cool as it closes.

I assume that I should use the onunload event but how can I delay the page closing long enough for the effect to run to completion.

One of the options that came to mind is effectively hijacking the page closing function, storing it in some variable and then executing it once I had run my effect but I have no idea how I would do that.

Any suggestions or alternative ideas are more than welcome

Solution

  • As far as I know, the only way to stop a user from leaving a page is the onbeforeunload event, which isn't cancelable. Instead, you return a string from that method, the browser prompts the user with a Yes/No dialog, life goes on. 276660 has more info about this.

    I don't think you're going to have much luck with this one.