Noobie onclick, confirm, return false ??

Hello, I'm trying to figure this code out.

<input type="submit" onclick="if(!confirm('Are you sure?') return
false; "... />

I know that if you return false in an event like this onclick it
prevents the default behavior of the event. So, in the onclick of a
button the default behavior is to submit the form.

Confirm returns the value 1 if the user clicks OK and the value 0 if
the user clicks Cancel and 1 is treated as true and 0 is treated as
false right?

so, if the user click OK, a 1 is returned but the ! turns it to false
and the form should not submit even thou the user click OK, and then
there's a return false right after the confirm function. so what's
happening here? do we even need the return false statement here?

TIA
g

re: Noobie onclick, confirm, return false ??

GiJeet wrote:No, the default behavior is to activate the element.
No, it returns `true' or `false'. Boolean is a type of its own in
ECMAScript implementations.
If you mean "evaluated in boolean expressions" by "treated", then you are
correct.
`true' is returned.
Correct.
Non sequitur. The default action of the `click' event is to activate the
element, not to submit the form. That is the default action of the form's
submit event, and so must be handled in the `onsubmit' event handler attribute.
Doesn't matter.
The entire code is bogus. However, return window.confirm(...) accomplishes
the same: nothing of consequence here, preventing form submission if the
dialog is canceled within the `onsubmit' attribute value.


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re: Noobie onclick, confirm, return false ??

>The default action of the `click' event is to activate theso why does the form get submitted when you click OK?

re: Noobie onclick, confirm, return false ??

On May 19, 11:06 pm, GiJeet <gij...@yahoo.comwrote:<input type="submit" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure?');">

should work. Yet there is a long standing tradition to form submit and
not button submit.

<form onsubmit="return confirm('Are you sure?');">

I remember they were some serious reasons for this choice but I don't
remember them now nor I know if they are still actual.

re: Noobie onclick, confirm, return false ??

GiJeet wrote:I have already explained that in the very paragraph you quoted.

Please leave the attribution line in.


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re: Noobie onclick, confirm, return false ??

VK said:Early browsers didn't all support an onclick handler for the submit button.


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