Prompting user to save changes before leaving jsp

Folks,
I want to be able to prompt the user to save changes on the page that he's on, before he navigates to a different one. one idea i explored is using the body onUnload event. the problem is that my page is split into multiple jsps with tiles, and the body tag is in a common tile that i can't really access.
Any other ideas on how to do this?
Thanks,
Nilesh

nthali wrote:
well, onbeforeunload seems to be an IE specific event. we have some customers using firefox etc.It works in at least IE 5.0, FF 1.5 and Safari 1.3. Only not in Opera yet, because it very strictly follows the w3 standards. It doesn't support the onunload either though, which was also invented by Microsoft and adopted by FF and Safari, only a bit earlier than the onbeforeunload.
And as I already said, the onunload is already too late. The browser will (already) be closed regardless of the (outcome of the) warning message.

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