adding javascript window.confirm to linkbutton

[darrel]

Is it possible to pre-empt the javascript function used to do a postback
from a linkbutton?

I'd like to use linkbutton to delete a record and want to add a confirmation
box via javascript "are you sure you want to delete this record?" before it
executes the postback. The javascript is straightforward for this, but have
no idea how to have that intercept the post-back script.

-Darrel

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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Is it possible to pre-empt the javascript function used to do a postback
from a linkbutton?

I'd like to use linkbutton to delete a record and want to add a
confirmation box via javascript "are you sure you want to delete this
record?" before it executes the postback. The javascript is
straightforward for this, but have no idea how to have that intercept the
post-back script.

Any JavaScript function which returns false will intercept a postback e.g.

<asp:Button ID="MyButton" runat="server" OnClick="MyButton_Click"
OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this
record?');" Text="Delete" />

In the above example, when a user clicks on the Delete button, they will be
prompted with a client-side Yes/No alert - if they click Yes, the postback
will happen and run the code in the server-side MyButton_Click method - if
they click No, the postback will be intercepted and nothing further will
happen...
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[darrel]

<asp:Button ID="MyButton" runat="server" OnClick="MyButton_Click"

OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this
record?');" Text="Delete" />

Slick, but can this be done with a linkButton? I don't see an OnClientClick
property for that.

-Darrel

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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><asp:Button ID="MyButton" runat="server" OnClick="MyButton_Click"
OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this
record?');" Text="Delete" />

Slick, but can this be done with a linkButton? I don't see an
OnClientClick property for that.

Yep - in the Page_Load, add the following code:

MyLinkButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('Are you sure you
want to delete this record?');");
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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[darrel]

MyLinkButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('Are you sure you

want to delete this record?');");

Hmm...I've done that, but the event handler still executes for the
linkButton regardless of whether I click OK or CANCEL in the confirmation
window.

-Darrel

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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>MyLinkButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('Are you sure you
want to delete this record?');");

Hmm...I've done that, but the event handler still executes for the
linkButton regardless of whether I click OK or CANCEL in the confirmation
window.

Actually, having just tried this, <asp:LinkButtonmost certainly *does*
have an OnClientClick property:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ck(vs.80).aspx
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[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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Don't I still need to apply some sort of onClick event to the linkButton,
though? I'm not sure how the above script would know to intercept the
onClick event if there's nothing to trigger it.

MyLinkButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('Are you sure you
want to delete this record?');");
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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Well, this is where my lack of Javascript skills begins to show. ;0)

Here's the function I'm using curtesy of Collin:
Mark, your onclick event makes sense,

You can't have both...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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[darrel]

>Here's the function I'm using curtesy of Collin:

>Mark, your onclick event makes sense,

You can't have both...

Right. But that's kind of going back to my original problem...adding the
confirmation on the OnClick event of the linkbutton does NOT intercept the
postback. Regardless of whether or not I click OK or CANCEL, the postback is
still executed.

-Darrel

[darrel]

Isn't JavaScript case-sensitive, so onclick should be onClick?

'doh! yea, good catch!

That said, I still get the 'mybutton has no properties' error.

-Darrel

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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>>Here's the function I'm using curtesy of Collin:
Mark, your onclick event makes sense,

You can't have both...

Right. But that's kind of going back to my original problem...adding the
confirmation on the OnClick event of the linkbutton does NOT intercept the
postback. Regardless of whether or not I click OK or CANCEL, the postback
is still executed.

It's working perfectly for me, although I am of course using ASP.NET v2. I
don't recall there being any problems in v1.x, though... Here's the code I'm
using:

<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkButton" runat="server" OnClick="lnkButton_Click"
OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this
record?');" Text="Delete" />

protected void lnkButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string strTest = String.Empty;
}
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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[darrel]

It's working perfectly for me, although I am of course using ASP.NET v2. I

don't recall there being any problems in v1.x, though... Here's the code
I'm using:

<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkButton" runat="server" OnClick="lnkButton_Click"
OnClientClick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this
record?');" Text="Delete" />

Seems like 2.0 has a more intuitive 'OnClientClick' event.

If I apply the confirmation to the OnClick event in 1.1, the alert box
works...it just doesn't stop the postback from executing.

-Darrel

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"darrel" <no*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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Seems like 2.0 has a more intuitive 'OnClientClick' event.

If I apply the confirmation to the OnClick event in 1.1, the alert box
works...it just doesn't stop the postback from executing.

Fair enough - unfortunately, I can't confirm this as I retired my one
remaining v1.1 installation quite a few months ago...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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[darrel]

Fair enough - unfortunately, I can't confirm this as I retired my one
remaining v1.1 installation quite a few months ago...

I don't blame you. ;o)

-Darrel

[darrel]

If I apply the confirmation to the OnClick event in 1.1, the alert box

works...it just doesn't stop the postback from executing.

....CUASE I'M AN IDIOT!

doh'...finally realized it wasn't working because I forgot to put the RETURN
in there before the confirm command.

Sorry...USER ERROR!

Thanks for all the help Mark and Collin!

-Darrel