I have a link that I would like to present with a confirmation. I am using the javascript confirm() method. But the only way for me to get the link to not work when the user clicks 'cancel' is to use return false;. Is that the correct way to do it (cross-browser)?
$('a.confirm').click(function() {
if(confirm('Are you sure? This cannot be undone.')) {
return true;
}
return false;
});
Returning false on an event handler, is equivalent to call both event.preventDefault and event.stopPropagation, your code should work, but what about:
$('a.confirm').click(function() {
return confirm('Are you sure? This cannot be undone.');
});
It will return false if the user cancels the confirm...
Run that snippet here.
See preventDefault: http://docs.jquery.com/Events/jQuery.Event#event.preventDefault.28.29
$("a").click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
});
