Detect uncommitted yet posted data in my forms session?

In our application it is common practice to use the Forms POST built-in.
Since we have our own exit-function with the application-wide look and feel we would like to catch the alert-box asking whether to save any changes.
Is there a way to either adapt the alert-box to our own look and feel or an attribute that could be utilised in order to detect uncommitted data?
We would rather not want to omit the POST logic nor log any footstep of the user.
Any hint would be appreciated.

Use parameters , set their values to 'false' for example before posting changes , and then check the status of all of the blocks in your form. Change the value of a particular parameter to true if the status of a certain block is CHANGED. To prevent from being confused name your parameters according to the block name.
And in your exit functionality test if one of the parameters is 'true' and you show your alert.

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