Google chrome onbeforeunload wrong behavior with iframe

Question

Let say I have two pages. One of them contains another one inside as iframe. If you subscribe to onbeforeunload event on the parent page, then this event doesn\'t triggers if yo

Answer 1

You may also try to change the iframe's url to "about:blank", e.g.:

$("#myFrameId")[0].src = "about:blank";

It forces chrome to "cleanly" close the window containted within the iframe.

Just to mention: if you want to close only your iframe but not the parent window, you have to give chrome enough time to execute the handler you've attached to 'onbeforeunload'.