Question

I have a @Ajax.ActionLink which calls a Delete Action. Now I want to use JQuery UI Dialog confirm instead the regular “Confirm” attribute of the Ajax link.
I hook the event to the Ajax.ActionLink using the unobtrusive javaScript. But the action gets submitted and the e.preventDefault(); throughs an error. Can anyone tell me why this happens?

Here is my jQuery code:

 $("[data-dialog-confirm]").click(function (e) {

        e.preventDefault();
        var theHREF = $(this).attr("href");
        $("#dialog-confirm").dialog('option', 'buttons', {
            "Delete this item": function () {
                window.location.href = theHREF;
                $(this).dialog("close");
            },
            "Cancel": function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        });
        $("#dialog-confirm").dialog("open");
    });

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Here is my MVC code:

    @Ajax.ActionLink("Delete", "DeleteConfirmed", new { id = item.Id },
                    new AjaxOptions
                    {
                        HttpMethod = "POST",
                        OnSuccess = "refreshList"
                    },
                    new {data_dialog_confirm="true" }
                    )

Answer 1

I ended up doing this:
Change the Ajax.ActionLink to Html.ActionLink and in my JavaScript code I call $.get(theHREF, null, function () { refreshList() });

Here is the code:

   $("#dialog-confirm").dialog({
        autoOpen: false,
        resizable: false,
        width: 500,
        modal: true,
        buttons: {
            "Delete this item": function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            },
            Cancel: function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        }
    });

    $("[data-dialog-confirm]").click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var theHREF = $(this).attr("href");
        $("#dialog-confirm").dialog('option', 'buttons', { "Yes":
        function () {
            $.get(theHREF, null, function () { refreshList() });
            $(this).dialog("close");
        }, "No":
      function () { $(this).dialog("close"); }
        });
        $("#dialog-confirm").dialog("open");
    });

Here is the MVC 3 ActionLink

 @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "DeleteConfirmed", "Category", new { id = item.Id }, new
                    {
                        data_dialog_confirm = "true"
                    })