Level 102
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/beforeunload_event
It will trigger on page changes too, so you might want to add some extra logic if the page needs to remain the same for x to occur
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On my HTML page, when the user clicks / presses F5 button the page refreshes, but before it refreshes I want to execute a function or a simple alert.
User can click on refresh button, press F5 or Ctrl + R.
Using jQuery
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