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on window close, not beforeunload
I have a parent window which has a button which launches a popup window. The first thing the popup window does is to mask-out the parent window so that no data can be entered while the popup is open. The popup window is like a wizard which presents a series of forms with PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons. When the last form is presented, there is a FINISH button. When the user clicks on the FINISH button, the mask-out is removed from the parent window and then the popup window closes. This works perfectly. The only problem is, what happens if the user closes the window prior to reaching the FINISH button? Well, the parent window remains masked-out. I tried adding the following bit of code to the popup window.
I've tried various ways of unbinding the 'beforeunload' event from the <FORM> but no luck.
What do I need to do in order to unmask the window.opener.document when the user closes the popup but not when they click on the NEXT button.
Thanks
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', function () {
window.opener.document.getElementById("modalDivBackDrop").classList.remove("slds-backdrop--open");
});
<input id="j_id0:j_id1:i:f:pb:pbb:next" type="submit" name="j_id0:j_id1:i:f:pb:pbb:next" value="Next" style="visibility: visible;" class="btn FlowNextBtn">
I've tried various ways of unbinding the 'beforeunload' event from the <FORM> but no luck.
What do I need to do in order to unmask the window.opener.document when the user closes the popup but not when they click on the NEXT button.
Thanks
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Parent
CSS
Parent
CSS
<style type="text/css">
.overlay {
background: rgba(0,0,0,.85);
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
left: 0;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
z-index: 10000;
}
</style>
<button>Click Me</button>
<script>
$(function() {
$('button').click(function() {
$('body').append($('<div/>', {class: 'overlay'}));
window.open('t2196child.html');
});
});
window.addEventListener('message', function(e) {
console.log(e.data);
$('.overlay').remove();
}, false);
</script>
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<h1> Close this form</h1>
<script>
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', function() {
window.opener.postMessage("done", window.location.href);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
I should have made it more clear that the NEXT button is also triggering a 'beforeunload' event, and I can't change this because it's part of a visual flow (salesforce) embedded in a visualforce page. I don't need need anybody to look at this, but I am posting in just in case anybody is interested.
The "<flow:interview name="New_Account_Wizard">
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<apex:page showheader="false" sidebar="false">
<flow:interview name="New_Account_Wizard"></flow:interview>
<!-- New_Account_Wizard is a multi page flow with a form on each page -->
<!-- so at different stages of the flow the DOM will look different -->
<script>
window.onload = function () {
var frm = document.getElementById('j_id0:j_id1:i:f');
// do this only if the target FORM is on the curent page
if (typeof(frm) != 'undefined' && frm != null)
{
var accountNameField = document.getElementById('j_id0:j_id1:i:f:pb:d:Company.input');
// do this only if the target accountNameField is on the curent page
if (typeof(accountNameField) != 'undefined' && accountNameField != null)
{
// Load the local Storage when the user hits the NEXT button. NEXT button does SUBMIT and goes to next page
frm.addEventListener('submit',function(evt) {
localStorage.setItem('AccountName', document.getElementById('j_id0:j_id1:i:f:pb:d:Company.input').value);
});
}
}
var finishBtn = document.getElementById('j_id0:j_id1:i:f:pb:pbb:finish');
if (typeof(finishBtn) != 'undefined' && finishBtn != null)
{
// override the FINISH button on the last screen of the wizard. If you dont,
// the natural behaviour is to restart the wizard at page one.
finishBtn.addEventListener('click',function(evt2) {
evt2.preventDefault();
//console.log (document.body);
//var list = (opener.document.body)
// Remove backdrop which is covering the parent window
// window.opener.document.getElementById("modalDivBackDrop").classList.remove("slds-backdrop--open");
//console.log (list);
window.close();
});
}
}
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', function () {
window.opener.document.getElementById("modalDivBackDrop").classList.remove("slds-backdrop--open");
console.log('opened backdrop from popup window');
});
</script>
</apex:page>
The "<flow:interview name="New_Account_Wizard">
Capture.PNG
I suspect what is happening is the Next button is calling another page which is what is triggering the beforeunload.
Not sure if this will work
What you would need to do is to attach an event handler to the Next and set a flag to say whether it has been clicked and in the beforeunload check to see if the flag has been set and only remove the background if the flag has not been set (button has not been clicked)
Not sure if this will work
What you would need to do is to attach an event handler to the Next and set a flag to say whether it has been clicked and in the beforeunload check to see if the flag has been set and only remove the background if the flag has not been set (button has not been clicked)
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Awesome idea. I'll try that. It's a good technique. I doubt, however, if it is the best solution in this case because the wizard (visual flow) might be changed independent of this usage. I think that each NEXT button might have a different id and if more next buttons get created (more pages to the wizard) then I would need to update my wrapper to address these new buttons. In fact, that is a weakness that my wrapper (visualforce page shown above) already has. It looks for specific element ids and I have no guarantee that the next time I generate the visual flow that it will be generated with those same ids. Thanks for your help!
I would look for something that identifies the button other than its id - look for a class that you can use - even if it is a sibling you can do a next to get to the Next button.
Otherwise you are welcome.
Otherwise you are welcome.
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So rather that find the source of the problem and prevent it, I have chosen to monitor the symptom and fix it.