stopping page by onUnload handler

[Anurag Mishra]

Hi all,
I have a question whe a user tries to go to a different page I am checking for some condition and if condition is true I am allowing him to move to next page otherwise same page will be displayed.
This i m doing in onUnload handler, but if condition is false i want to stop unloading of current page .
How do do this?? i tried window.stop();
and document.execCommand('stop'); but it did't worked.
thanks for ur time.
Anurag

[Eric Pascarello]

You might want to try
document.location.href="theUrl"
I do no think it will work

[Anurag Mishra]

Hi Eric,
Its not what i m looking I just want a way to stop loading a page one i call onunload eventhandler.
If you get time pls reply.
thanks
Anurag

[Yuriy Fuksenko]

You can do it on IE only using onbeforeunload handler.
There is no way to do it using onunload. Best you can do, is to call alert, so the page will stay until user hits "OK".

[Anurag Mishra]

Hi Yuri,
thanks a lot for your reply but onbeforeunload displays its own message I know we can customize this message but we cannot customize it
totally as if we use this we need to display Microsoft's messages also.
pls put your comments.
thanks
anurag

[Eric Pascarello]

you are stuck with what you got,
I would use a different approach where you send the links to a function and check it that way. If it is true then let them advance by changing the link

var allowPass = false;
function nextPage(theUrl){
  if(allowPass)document.location.href=theUrl;
}

This wil not stop yping into the Addy bar or closing the browser or the forward buttons
Eric

[Jeramie Maratas]

Hi..
I want to do the same thing: invoke the stop method of the web browser. If you were able to solve your problem, can you give me an idea on how to go about it? Thanks and more power.

Best Regards,
Jen