Question

I have a form that when the submit is hit i want a modal box to pop up with a YES and NO button i want the both the yes and no button to submit the form but i need to know which button they clicked.

Here is my code

<input onclick="$.msgbox('confirm text',{
  buttons : [
    {type: 'submit', value:'YES'},
    {type: 'submit', value:'NO'}
  ]
}, function(buttonPressed) {

});" name="btnApply" id="btnApply" tabindex="41" src="images/btnsubmit.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" type="image" />

My problem is the form is submitting when the user clicks submit.

Any help or ideas would be great

thanks

Answer 1

While I’m not familiar with the $.msgbox plugin but you should be opening the modal dialog on <form> submit and not on a button press, as the form can also be submitted by an enter/return on certain input fields (like text boxes <input type="text|password">)

var confirmed = false;
$('#myform').bind('submit', function() {
  if (confirmed) {
    return true;  // confirmation received, continue form submission process
  } else {
    $.msgbox(
      'my modal message',
      {
        buttons : [
          { type: 'button', value: 'YES' },
          { type: 'button', value: 'NO' }
        ]
      }, 
      function(buttonPressed) {
        confirmed = buttonPressed.value;  // Update the confirmed variable
        $('#myform').submit();  // re-submit the form
      }
    );  
    return false;  // cancel form submission
  }
});