confirm problem

[leoric1928]

hello,

im having a problem with my javascript. im using confirm on the onclick event of my button, the problem is whenever i press cancel it still continues to submit the form, how do i stop that?

sample:

<input name="del_submit" type="submit" onClick="confirm_delete()" value="Delete">

the code for confirm delete is this

function confirm_delete()
{
if (confirm("Are you sure?"))
{
document.form1.submit();
}
else
{
// donot submit
}
}

is there something wrong with my code?

tnx

[Steffel]

the problem is that you allready submit the form clicking on the button
change your input type to button instead of submit, than it should work fine...

[leoric1928]

yes i've already tried to change the type to button but the problem is now on my php code, it doesn't seem to submit anymore even though I choose Ok on the confirm.

this is my sample php code

if (isset($_POST['del_submit']))
{

// do something
}

[AstroTeg]

What you'll need to do is have confirm_delete() return true or false. True if you want the form to submit. False otherwise.

For the onclick="" section, just add "return" before the function.

<input type="del_submit" type="submit" onclick="return confirm_delete()" value="Delete">

[leoric1928]

thank you very much AstroTeg, now it works, thank you again 🙂