ASP.NET confirm before executing codebehind

Sara picture Sara · Mar 23, 2012 · Viewed 74.4k times · Source

I have a form where a user can delete a record, and I want a pop-up message where the user has to click okay to confirm the delete.

Delete button:

<asp:Button ID="btnDelete" runat="server" Text="Delete" UseSubmitBehavior="false" OnClick="btnDelete_Click" OnClientClick="confirmation();" />

Confirmation function:

function confirmation() {
        var answer = confirm("Are you sure you want to delete? This action cannot be undone.")
    }

So right now, clicking the delete button executes the btnDelete_Click Sub in the code behind regardless of whether you click okay or cancel in the pop-up box. I know I can add if (answer) { -- some code here -- } in my javascript function, but is it possible to use javascript to execute code from the codebehind? Or is there another way to do this?

Answer

Thit Lwin Oo picture Thit Lwin Oo · Mar 23, 2012

Please try as follows. You have to return the result of the confirmation function (true or false).

<asp:Button 
    ID="btnDelete" 
    runat="server" 
    Text="Delete" 
    UseSubmitBehavior="false" 
    OnClick="btnDelete_Click" 
    OnClientClick="return confirmation();" />

 

function confirmation() {
    return confirm("Are you sure you want to delete?");
}