Gossamer Forum: General: Internet Technologies: Confirm before going to a URL?

Jun 11, 2003, 9:36 AM

Andy

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Jun 11, 2003, 9:36 AM

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Confirm before going to a URL?

I'm am totally crap at Javascript. Basically, I have grabbed bits of code from the Internet to put something together that will do the following.;

I need something that will give me a re-usable bit of code, so I can get a confirmation message appear before they are taken to a link. I tried it simply in a href, like;

Code:
<a href="http://www.google.com" onMouseOver="confirm('What do you think?')">test link to google</a>

That brought up the confirmation message, but whether you clicked on the 'ok' or 'cancel' button, it still took you to that URL.

I then tried the following code that I put otgether (remember, I'm crap at Javascript).... It doesn't work at all, but I'm hoping to give you an idea of what I am trying to do.

Code:
<script language="JavaScript"> 
<!-- 

function genericConfirmAlert() 
var URL; 
{if (confirm("message-text")) 
{location.href = URL;}} 

// --> 
</script> 

<a href="JavaScript:genericConfirmAlert('http://www.google.com')">link-text</a>

Anyone got any suggestions? (I have searched the Net, but as you can see, nothing of working relevance turned up).

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Jun 11, 2003, 1:50 PM

Paul

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Jun 11, 2003, 1:50 PM

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Re: [Andy] Confirm before going to a URL? In reply to

Code:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> 
function jump_to(url) { 
    if (confirm("Does your javascript suck?")) 
        location.href = url; 
    else 
        return false; 
} 
</script> 

<a href="#" onclick="return jump_to('http://www.javascript.com');">Click Me</a>

Jun 11, 2003, 3:45 PM

Andy

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Jun 11, 2003, 3:45 PM

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Worked like a charm Smile

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk