Question

I made a short Javascript function:

function confirmMessage() {
  var messages = confirm("Are you sure");
  if(messages) {
    //go trough
  }else{
    //stop, cancel the action
    return false;
  }
}

HTML:

<a href='?pagina=uitloggen'  onclick="confirmMessage()">

When I click cancel, it returns false and jumps to the else statement. But it doesn’t stop the action! What is the problem here?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your <a> tag’s onclick should return the result of the event handler for it to stop propagating.

<a href='?pagina=uitloggen'  onclick="return confirmMessage()">