How can i get the destination url of a link on the web page in the javascript onbeforeunload event?

Question

Is it possible to capture what link on the web page the user clicked on? Not talking about if they manually entered an url in the address bar or if they clicked on the back butt

Answer 1

Instead of having a completely different set of headers/footers you could replace all links in certain areas with links that open in a new window like so:

$('#header a, #footer a').each(function() {
  $(this).attr('target', '_blank');
});