CloseWatcher: cancel event
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
A cancel event is fired at a CloseWatcher object before the close event, so that close can be prevented from firing, if necessary. It is triggered by all close signals (e.g., the Esc key) as well as CloseWatcher.requestClose().
Syntax
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
js
addEventListener("cancel", (event) => { })
oncancel = (event) => { }
Event type
An Event.
Examples
Using the cancel event
In this example, we ask the user to confirm that they really want to close the component, and if they don't, we cancel the event using Event.preventDefault(), which prevents the close event from being fired.
js
watcher.addEventListener("cancel", (e) => {
if (e.cancelable && hasUnsavedData) {
const userReallyWantsToClose = confirm("Are you sure you want to close?");
if (!userReallyWantsToClose) {
e.preventDefault();
}
}
});
// Trigger a close request manually
watcher.requestClose();
Specifications
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