IE9 confirm browser exit

Question

There is a lot of questions on stackoverflow.com about this issue. But there is really no answer, or I couldn't find it (in that case, I am sorry for this duplicate).

So I have an Ajax based web application, and I want to know if user want's to leave the page. Here's a snippet what I have:

function goodbye(e) {
    if(!stopGoodbye) {
        if(!e) e = window.event;
        e.cancelBubble = true;
        e.returnValue = 'You are leaving the system!'; 
        if (e.stopPropagation) {
            e.stopPropagation();
            e.preventDefault();
        }
    } 
}
window.onbeforeunload=goodbye

stopgoodbye is for turning off when clicking logout.

This works in Firefox, but in IE9 it is showing the dialog everytime user clicks a link which just changes some DIV content (an Ajax link)... If it helps, I am using Struts2 framework with jQuery.

Answer 1

you can actually turn the onbeforeupload warning off for the user(when they clicked on a link) by adding an onclick event to the anchor.

you can read more about here , the solution are in the comments