You need to return false if you don't want something to happen. so if
(confirm('whatever')) { do_whatever(); } else return false;
smeranda wrote:
>
> When a user clicks a link and a form field currently has data, a
> confirmation box appears. This is close to working, but if a user clicks
> 'cancel' the browser still redirects to the a href URL. What am I doing
> wrong?
>
> $("a").click(function(){alertSave($(this).attr("href"));});
>
> function alertSave(url) {
> var dataControl = $('#changedAppointments').attr("value");
> if (dataControl.length > 0) {
> if (confirm("You have made changes to this date which have not
> been
> saved.\n\nAre you sure you want to navigate from this page?")) {
> document.location = url;
> }
> }
> }
>
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