Question

I have a checkbox and as soon as it is clicked I’m going to submit an AJAX request to update a field. However, first I’d like to call confirm to make sure that this is what they want.

This does not work:

$(".mycheckbox")
    .live("click",
        function(){
            if(!confirm("Sure about that?")){ return false; }
            $.post($(this.form).attr("action")+".js",
                   $(this).serialize()+"&_method=put",
                   null, 
                   "script");
        }
    )

Answer 1

instead of return false:

function(ev){
    if(!confirm("Sure about that?")){
        ev.preventDefault();
        return;
    }
    ...
}