mailto link (in chrome) is triggering [removed] - can i prevent this?

Question

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Hi all. I have a form page where i\'ve put a window.onbeforeunload co

Answer 1

I managed to solve this problem inside the onbeforeunload event by checking event.target. This way you dont have to use outer variables or any extra bindings.

window.onbeforeunload = function (event) {

    var activeElement = $(event.target.activeElement);
    // console.log('onbeforeunload', activeElement);

    var isMailto = activeElement && activeElement.is('[href^=mailto:]');
    var isTel = activeElement && activeElement.is('[href^=tel:]');

    if(!isMailto && !isTel) {
        // logic when link is "normal"
    }
};