Javascript Confirm

tewari68 · Sep 15, 2006

Hi,
I have a php form with two sets of radio buttons to undelete or to purge and one submit button to do the required action.
I want to add a javascript confirm statement only when the purge radio button is selected, the user can select either a single file to purge or multiple files to purge and when the user clicks on the submit button I want a javascript confirm statement to confirm purging the files.
Right now I have put the confirm onclick event when the submit button is clicked so the confirm statement window pops up even if only undelete radio buttons are selected.
However I just want the confirm statement when the purge buttons are selected.
Don't know much javascript, appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Mohit

trollacious · Sep 15, 2006

How about showing your form and JS code so we can see what we're working with?

Lee

rac2 · Sep 18, 2006

Use a function as the event handler instead of a single line of code.

Probably you have something like this now

Code:

<html>
...
<input type="submit" onclick="confirm('Are you sure?');">
...
</html>

So you need to do this

Code:

<html>
...
<input type="submit" onclick="doConfirm();">
...
<script>
function doConfirm(){
   
   var the_right_buttons_are_checked = false;
   //logic to check which buttons are selected.
   //  setting the variable true if we need to confirm.
   your code goes here
   
   if ( the_right_buttons_are_checked ) {
     if ( confirm("Are you sure?") ) {
        //They clicked OK so submit the form.
        document.myForm.submit();
     }
   
   } else {
   
     //No need to confirm so submit the form.
     document.myForm.submit();
   }
}
</script>
</html>

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Javascript Confirm

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