Detect URl Bar click event or user typing in Browser address bar with Jquery/java-script

Question

I am working on a project where I need to Interact with browser Url bar. I mean I need too detect event with jquery/JS as soon as user clicks on address bar or type in there or if user clicks on another tab so to use with with callback and do the stuff. I know the browser is a OS app and has its own control but is there a way to accomplish this? Right now I am just detecting if user leaves Html from upper position.

Here is the code

co$(window).mouseleave(function(e){
 if(e.pageY<5)
 {
 //do stuff;
 }
});

Any thoughts will be appreciated

• kapex: Whatever feature you are trying to implement - it seems like a bad idea to react or rely on things the user may does outside of your web page. If you really want to do that you'd need to create a browser plugin.
• user2751232: Thanks mate for Lead and i guess Browser plugin for this requirement can not be created in client or server web scripting languges any idea on this
• kapex: Maybe something like this is sufficient: detect if user changes tab.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you cannot tell when the user is interacting with the address bar.

• Mohneesh Agrawal: So there is no way to detect if user actually clicked on browser address bar?
• loganfsmyth: No, all you know is that their mouse left the browser window.

Answer 2

The only way to handle this is using $(window).bind('beforeunload', function (e) { your code here }); But again it will not tell you which key is pressed. It will only gets called upon reload the page, refresh the page and browser close.