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    Posted: 27 June 2011 at 5:01am
Any guidance on implementing a feature that would warn a user if they attempt to leave a page that has been edited but not saved?  Some kind of annoying popup:
"You have unsaved changes - discard, save or cancel?"

I figure this might happen in a body unload event, but how to detect whether the editor is "dirty" (unsaved changes) or "clean" (unchanged)?

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Probably the simplest way to do this is when the page is loaded populate both the text area used for the RTE and another hidden field with the content you are going to edit.

You would then need to find a way to trigger an event that when the page is closed you can compare both the value of the RTE text area and the hidden text area and if they are not the same give a warning to the user that they need to save their changed content.
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