confirmation box

[dazza12345]

Hi all,
I have a button that will delete a row from a database. However, I dont really want to alow the user to delete database entries without confirmation.

What would be the best way of asking the user for conformation? A popup box?

if so, has any1 got any example code that will popup a box that will allow the user to select yes or no.

Cheers

 

[TipGiver]

You could use some javascript.
I would prefer to redirect to a new page (carrying the nesecary info.. by querystring or session etc) and have there 2 links. One for no and one for yes. Then redirect back. It is the way that tektips use when you want to delete a forum from your threadminder.

Hope this helps !

 

[jshurst]

Are you using a datagrid?
If so then this article might be helpful...

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/090402-1.aspx

Otherwise, add a javascript confirmation box to the Delete buttons attributes.

 

[dazza12345]

Im not using a datagrid and would prefer not to redirect to another page. Is there any way of just getting a confirmation box to pop up to appear from the same page?

 

[jbenson001]

then you will need to use javascript

 

[jshurst]

Just add the javascript function to the button's attributes on the page_load (I think you'll need to add "return false" so that the button won't post back.

 

[dvannoy]

as jshurst said set the attribute for your button..

e.g.

YourButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this item?');")

 

[ca8msm]

Did you actually read the article suggested to you in the second reply? If you had, you would notice that there is an example of how to add the client-side confirmation...


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