Onbeforeunload And Onunload Getting One To Work After The Other

I am having some trouble with the on before unload and the unload method. I thought i set the code right in terms of the onload method only firing up after the confirm method for o

Solution 1:

onbeforeunload does not work like you think it does. You can return a string from the handler, which will prompt a messsage, or undefined which will do nothing.

window.onbeforeunload = goodbye;

function goodbye(e) {
    if (!validNavigation) {
        return leave_message;
    } else {
        return undefined;
    }
}

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