onUnload() -- Very URGENT !!!

[Tejas Tambe]

Hello,
I want to display a confirm message 'Are you sure u want to quit ?', when user presses the [X] button. But, the onUnload() closes the window first and then displays the message.
Is there any way to display the message first and close the window ???

[Veena Rani]

you can use onbeforeunload event in place of onUnload this will display the message before closing the window. But i dont think you can prevent the closing of window according to user respose to message displayed.
Veena

[Tejas Tambe]

Thanks Veena,
I tried the onbeforeunload event, and it works.
I have found a solution on which I can stop the unload event, by returning false to onbeforeunload.

onbeforeunload="return onCross();"

But the problem here is that, IE itselfs prompts a message saying,

Are you sure you want to navigate from the current page.

Is there any way to disable this message from IE ?

[David Hibbs]

Wow, that's interesting. I did a google search on onbeforeunload and came up with some MickeySquish docs on the subject:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/events/onbeforeunload.asp
Apparently you cannot remove or alter this message--see the remarks section.

[David Hibbs]

Here's an even better article...
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/diner/beforeunload/