Question

I am using a radbutton. On the onclick event I have a piece of code that runs an SQL query to delete a record.

I want to return a confirm message box for this but I am not having any luck getting it to run.

• I have tried adding it to the onclientclick event,
• I have tried adding it to the attributes in the code behind when the button click event fires,
• and I have tried the Page.RegisterStartupScript("clientScript", message).

Each one of these is deleting the account before the return confirm is executed.

I have commented out my delete code and the message will fire then. In the adding it to the attributes case, it worked after I pushed the delete button twice. I have been researching this for several days and have not found a suitable code yet. Any help would be appreciated.

Updated – added code.

Code I have tried:

    string message = "<script language=JavaScript> alert( ' The ' );</script>";

    if (!Page.IsStartupScriptRegistered("clientScript"))
    {
        Page.RegisterStartupScript("clientScript", message);
    }

And

    RadButton btn = (RadButton)sender;

    string strMessage = "Are you sure?";

    btn.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confirm('" + strMessage + "');");

Here is the button

    <telerik:RadButton ID="btnDeleteAccount" runat="server" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial"
    Font-Size="11px" Skin="WebBlue" Text="Delete Account" OnClick="btnDeleteAccount_Click"
    Width="150px">
    </telerik:RadButton>

Answer 1

I finally found a piece of code that worked. I must have been entering some incorrect javascript.

Here is the code I found that worked for me.

OnClientClicking="function (sender, args){args.set_cancel(!window.confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this account?'));}"