Detect the Internet connection is offline?

Question

How to detect the Internet connection is offline in JavaScript?

Answer 1

I had to make a web app (ajax based) for a customer who works a lot with schools, these schools have often a bad internet connection I use this simple function to detect if there is a connection, works very well!

I use CodeIgniter and Jquery:

function checkOnline() {
    setTimeout("doOnlineCheck()", 20000);
}

function doOnlineCheck() {
    //if the server can be reached it returns 1, other wise it times out
    var submitURL = $("#base_path").val() + "index.php/menu/online";

    $.ajax({
        url : submitURL,
        type : "post",
        dataType : "msg",
        timeout : 5000,
        success : function(msg) {
            if(msg==1) {
                $("#online").addClass("online");
                $("#online").removeClass("offline");
            } else {
                $("#online").addClass("offline");
                $("#online").removeClass("online");
            }
            checkOnline();
        },
        error : function() {
            $("#online").addClass("offline");
            $("#online").removeClass("online");
            checkOnline();
        }
    });
}