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I want to be able to know when a user navigates away from the page I have loaded in a window opened by Javascript. For example if I have:

newWindow = window.open('http://www.example.com', 'testWindow');

I want to know when the user navigates away from that page (so unload, onunload, onbeforeunload would all work for me if any could be attached). The new window is from a different domain so maybe there's some same origin policy going on but I've been able to do it with iframes. For example:

<iframe src='http://www.example.com' onload='alert("load");'><iframe>

works just fine but I need to do this for a window, not an iframe.

jhchen
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You can do it like this:

newWindow = window.open('http://www.example.com', 'testWindow');
newWindow.onload = function() {
  alert("loaded");
};

You can give it a try here. There are restrictions however, the window must be on the same domain, to be in compliance with the same-origin policy (the onload event just won't be hooked up otherwise). In the example that weird domain is the same as the test frame, this is very important...try changing the domain or protocol and you'll see it doesn't work, and you'll get an error in your console.

Nick Craver
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  • So you are basically saying I can't do this because of Same Origin Policy? Any insights as to why it works for an iframe but not a window? – jhchen Jul 15 '10 at 18:48
  • I doubt this is working in IE9. newWindow returns null in IE9. – Raghav Jul 12 '12 at 13:56