consider this code sample :
<a href="some url" onclick="confirm('ok to proceed ?')">bla</a>`
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a").live("click", function (event) {
// In that function, I want to get
// the "confirm" return value
});
</script>
It is possible to get this return value without modifying the DOM ??
Thanks.............
you need to explicitly add the word "return", like this:
onclick="return confirm('ok to proceed?')"
EDIT: my initial reply was BS, here's what I got to work finally.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("a").click(function() {
var stuff = confirm('ok?');
if (stuff) {
alert('was ok, stuff=' + stuff);
}
else {
alert('was not ok, stuff=' + stuff);
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a>
</body>
</html>
<a href="some url" onclick="var myVar = confirm('ok to proceed ?')">bla</a>
If I remember correctly, that should work. You would then have access to myVar in your jQuery block like you would have access to any other Javascript variable.
No, the value is not stored anywhere for you to access. The only way to get that value is to move it to a jQuery handled click event like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
// The removeAttr removes the original "onclick" attribute
$("a").removeAttr('onclick').live("click", function (event) {
var ret = confirm('ok to proceed ?');
// Do what you want here because `ret` has the return
// value from the `confirm` call.
});
});