Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/22/07 00:16

Bas Cost Budde wrote:
> Uit het bericht van Jerry Stuckle:
>> Tomislav wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your best bet is javascript - it works, just ensure you have
>>>> javascript enabled. Or you can take them to a new "confirm"
>>>> window. If they confirm then continue. If they do not, return to
>>>> the previous page.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your quick response. Below is code snippet I use as
>>> template to construct my own JavaScript code.
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> <form method="post" action="mail.php" onSubmit="javascript:return
>>> confirm('Do you really want to send this order ?);">
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> When I include Submit button in this form form action should be
>>> performed, e.g. "mail.php" should be executed. Only thing is that it
>>> is executed directly without any confirm windows.
>>>
>>> JS is enabled and browser is Firefox 2.0. What is more I frequently
>>> use JS in my designs and this very site I am working on now has
>>> plenty of JS included. That is a bit confusing - that code above does
>>> not work.
>>>
>>> Did I miss something when I incorporated JS in form ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tomislav
>>
>> Sorry, I don't know - I'm not that great on javascript. Try
>> comp.lang.javascript for javascript questions.
>>
(top posting fixed)

> I usually catch the submit action from the submit button. Would you care
> to see what that gives? The event procedure must cancel the default
> action, cross-browser... let me look this one up... nah, return false
> will do.
>

For javascript, not PHP.

> Does that help enough?
>

No.

> Yow, now I re-read your snippet, something strikes me: inside the
> inline onsubmit definition, there is no need to put 'javascript:'.
> Maybe that is all it takes.
>

Or, since this is javacript, maybe he needs to follow up in a javascript
newsgroup.

P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks.

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