That seemed to have solved it. Thanks. On Apr 24, 2:18 pm, "Jonathan Rosenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't you stop the event to avoid the page moving? If I understand what > you're trying to do: > > button.observe( > 'click', > function(event) { > Event.stop(event); > alert('button was clicked'); > return false; > } > > Or am I missing something? > > -- > Jonathan Rosenberg > Founder & Executive Director, Tabby's Placehttp://www.tabbysplace.org/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JoJo > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 4:46 PM > To: Prototype & script.aculo.us > Subject: [Proto-Scripty] anchor button causes IE8 to fire onbeforeunload > > I'm using an anchor tag to run some JS when clicked. This works > perfectly in Firefox, but Internet Explorer 8 wrongfully fires the > onbeforeunload callback. I know this can be solved by changing > HREF="javascript:void(0)" to HREF="#", but it won't work in my > situation because my anchor is very low in the page and I don't want > the page to scroll to the top when clicked. Is there any solution to > get anchor-buttons to not fire onbeforeunload in IE8? > > ==================================== > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> > <html> > <head> > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ > ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"></script> > <script type="text/javascript"> > window.onbeforeunload = function() { > return 'are you sure you want to leave?'; > } > > function buttonClicked() { > alert('a button was clicked'); > } > > Event.observe( > window, > 'load', > function() { > var button = new Element( > 'a', { > href: 'javascript:void(0)' > } > ); > > button.observe( > 'click', > function() { > alert('button was clicked'); > return false; > } > ); > > button.update('button text'); > > $$('body').first().appendChild(button); > } > ) > </script> > </head> > <body> > </body> > </html> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
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