confirm() function doesn't seem to work

>
>I have a confirm alert before the user goes to a delete page, and it
>doesn't matter if the user clicks ok or cancel - they always go to the
>delete page.
>
>I have the following code:
>
><a href="vehicle_history_delete.php?history_id=18&veh icle_id=5"
>onclick="return DelAlert();"><img border=0
>src="/images/delete_category_16.gif" alt="Delete This record"
>title="Delete this record">
>
>Where DelAlert() looks like:
>
><script language="JavaScript" >
>
>function DelAlert() {
>if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this history record?"))
>{
return true;
>} else
>{
>alert('Should be false');
return false;
>}
>}
>
></script>
>
>And have tried
>
><a href="vehicle_history_delete.php?history_id=10&veh icle_id=5"
>onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?')">
><img border=0 src="/images/delete_category_16.gif" alt="Delete This
>record" title="Delete this record">
></a>
>
>as well.
>
>This DOES prevent the navigation to the delete page:
>
><a href="vehicle_history_delete.php?history_id=10&veh icle_id=5"
>onclick="return false;">
>
>But is obviously not acceptable.
>
>Here's the kicker. The same code on a different page works fine. This
>page does not work in either IE or Firefox.

The code you posted works fine.
There's something else in your page that's clobbering it.
Have you defined a "confirm()" function that's replacing the built-in?
>

>
>function DelAlert() {
>if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this history record?"))
>{
return true;
>} else
>{
>alert('Should be false');
return false;
>}
>}
>

function DelAlert() { var OK
OK = confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this history record?")
if (!OK) alert('Should be false')
return OK }
>

function DelAlert() {
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this history record?")){
alert('Should be false');
return false;
};
// return true; // unneccessary?
}

On 2006-09-30 20:48:11 +0200, "Evertjan."
<exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.netsaid:
>>
That would return false when the dialog is confirmed.
>
Anyway the alert() line is obviously a temporary debug line. The
function could be further simplified as :
>
function DelAlert() {
return confirm("Are you sure you want to delete this history
record?")
>}
>
at which point it may be just as well to inline it.
>
I'm not sure why it doesn't work,

but you could work around the
problem by using the function to change the document.URL instead of
cancelling the navigation, and instead of a link, use a button, or an
input type="image". Links aren't supposed to perform actions like
deleting something anyway.
>
>

Touffy wrote on 01 Oct 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:
>>
What does not work?

Evertjan. wrote:

>
The confirm(). It doesn't prevent navigation to the delete page. It
doesn't work inline or if I put it in another function. That is why I
posted the original question.
>

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