I try to add a warning in the frontend-editing mode when a user clicks "close" or in modal view, clicks in the space outside the modal box - but yet no success.
The warning should simply display: "Do you have any unsaved changes? Please is save first before closing the submission form!" - ideally with 2 buttons: Go back | Close window.

Is there a way to achieve that? Without warning, especially in modal mode, the submission form has a big usability issue. A user can enter information, extra fields, etc and then simply misclick in the outside area > all input are done. A coniframtion/question would solve this problem.
thanks very much for the support or advice :)
best regards, Jonathan

Hi,

Am getting another behavior here. Message hereunder when I click the close button in Modal view. However clicking outside modal window will not actually try to close modal.

P.S this applies if content is changed (for intro / full text editor). Changes in Title / Alias will not trigger messages. I haven't tried other fields. Message is from browser though.

Firefox:
"Are you sure ? This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave — information you’ve entered may not be saved."
Option: Reload / Cancel

Chrome:
"Reload site ? Changes you made may not be saved."
Option: Leave / Cancel

However whatever option you click your changes will not be unsaved.

P.S Running default Joomla 3.9.25 with Beez and only k2 2.10.3 loaded only

Hi, you mean a warning message is already present? That's weird - I just have downloaded the current K2 version and copy-pasted over the contents of administrator\components\com_k2\views\item\tmpl\default.php to the according folder in HTML template override as it is suggested. The itemform is defiantly replaced by this action as it changes back to the default layout, but still - there are no warning messages on the close button and if I click the dark space around the modal, the form is closed immediately.

There are also zero errors in the developer console.

What could be an issue here?
Best regards
Jonathan

Yes for me it is but like I said, it's with default joomla installation running Beez. No third-party (other than k2) plugins loaded.

The messages are from the browser. For example if you try to save an item without selecting category. You will get a message about that.

Edit from my previous post: "However whatever option you click your changes will not be unsaved."

I guess @Fotis may enlighten us here about that.