Question

I have a JavaScript function that I am trying to call when the confirm is true. I am using document.write because the source document is a .js file, not html.

Before the true condition is executing, I want a confirmation from the user that they are sure they want to reset the counter.

I have two attempts – the first of which is returning true of false, but not calling the resetCookie() function on the true condition.

The second attempt is, I think, syntactically incorrect, as it appears to do nothing.

First attempt:

document.write('<a href="" onclick="return alert(confirm(\'sure?\'));{resetCookie()}{};"><i>Reset counter</i></a>'); 

Second attempt:

document.write("<a href='javascript: if (confirm('Continue?')) { alert('You chose true') } else { alert('You chose false.') }; void('')'>Reset counter</a>");

Answer 1

Why don’t you just use the jscript confirm() function?

if (confirm("sure?") == true){
   resetCookie();
}

btw, your A tag is wrong (I’ll ignore for now that you can’t use document.write when already running):

document.write('<a href="" onclick="if(confirm(\'sure?\')){resetCookie()};return false;"><i>Reset counter</i></a>');