How would I raise an event (jQuery or vanilla Javascript) when a popup window is closed?

Question

I want to raise an event when a popup window is closed, or preferably, just before closing. I\'m storing the popup window object as an object, but I don\'t know of any way to bi

Answer 1

The jQuery code example for the unload event

$(window).unload( function () { alert("Bye now!"); } );

From the jQuery unload documentation

Edit:

I played around and was not able to get the parent window to be able to set the unload. The only way I could get it to work, was by having the script present in the popup window html. The popup window also needed to load jQuery. I have nothing to base this on, but I believe the unload is being triggered, because essentially the popup window is being unloaded from the scope of the parent window. Just a guess.