alert confirmation with Anchor Link

joonstar

08-27-2004, 12:49 AM

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function verify(){
msg = "Are you absolutely sure that you want to submit this form?";
//all we have to do is return the return value of the confirm() method
return confirm(msg);
}
</SCRIPT>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
<FORM ACTION="action.cfm" onSubmit="return verify()">
Name: <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="myName" size=30><BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit">
</FORM>
</BODY>

The above code gives an alert confirmation when a user clicks the submit button using input form tag.

Can I give the alert confirmation when a user clicks the submit button using Anchor Link?

The following code doesn't work correctly, but it will help you to understand what I am trying to do.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function verify(){
msg = "Are you absolutely sure that you want to submit this form?";
//all we have to do is return the return value of the confirm() method
return confirm(msg);
}
</SCRIPT>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
<a href="action.cfm" onSubmit="return verify()"> Submit </a>
</BODY>

Thanks in Advance

A1ien51

08-27-2004, 02:02 AM

glenngv

08-27-2004, 03:51 AM

Only <form> tag has onsubmit event handler.

<form action="action.cfm" name="myform">
<a href="#" onclick="if (verify()) document.myform.submit();return false">Submit</a>

I can't use form onsubmit handler because document.formRef.submit() suprisingly doesn't trigger it.

liorean

08-27-2004, 04:03 AM

Why don't you rig that up to use a call to onsubmit instead of submit? IIRC (I might be wrong here, I haven't been working with DOM0 events lately) all event handlers trigger the corresponding event unless they return false, so calling onevent actually triggers the call to event,

glenngv

08-27-2004, 06:22 AM

Calling document.formRef.onsubmit() will surely execute the onsubmit handler but will not submit the page.