How to check browser close event?

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I want to prompt user with Whether he wants to Save changes if he clicks X on browser etc.

How to do that.

I tried <body onunload="method()">

but it is called everytime I perform operation on page. Say I click on any button method is called.

I only want to call method when user closes browser etc.
[ November 07, 2006: Message edited by: Santana Iyer ]

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This is a tricky problem, and you're not the first to encounter it. Try Googling "javascript detect window close" as I did, and you'll see some interesting approaches to solving it. This link looks the most promising to me, although I don't know if it's a cross-browser solution.

Also, I'm moving this to the HTML/JavaScript forum, since that's really where it belongs.

Merrill
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