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JavaScript

Posted by Ashish Mehra
Ashish Mehra
2,411 Points

Detect tab/browser closed

Hi everyone,

I want to delete user data when user close the browser tab or window. I'm kind of able to achieve the same with beforeunload event but wasn't able to differentiate between reload or close event.

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points
Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

I found this comment on Stack Overflow:

"I just tried this and it solved the issue: Create a sessionStorage object which will get destroyed when the user closes the browser. We can check the sessionStorage object to find if the user has closed the browser or refreshed the page(sessionStorage object will not be destroyed on page refresh)."

More info:

https://webkul.com/blog/detect-browser-tab-refresh-browser-tab-close-using-javascript/

I hope that helps. Happy coding!