Is a Modal Confirm Box Using JQuery Possible?

Looked around quite a bit, and can't seem to find a JQuery solution (maybe its just a limitation of JavaScript) for this:

<a href="somelink.php" 
   onclick="return confirm('Go to somelink.php?');">Click Here</a>

In the above example, when a user clicks on the link, it will only go to its href if the user clicks OK in the confirm box.

What I am trying to do is get a more modern look using a popup div. Perhaps something like this:

<a href="somelink.php" 
   onclick="return jq_confirm('Go to somelink.php?');">Click Here</a>

(Where jq_confirm is a custom JQuery confirm function that pops up a nice div with a YES/NO or OK/CANCEL button pair).

However, I cannot seem to find any such thing.

I have looked at some JQuery widget libraries etc which offer similar functionality, but none will wait for the response from the user (at least, not in the scenario described above), but instead they just proceed and take the user to the link (or run any JavaScript embedded in the href='' piece of the link). I suspect this is because while you can attach a callback function to many of these widgets to return a true/false value, the onclick event does not wait for a response (callbacks are asynchronous), thereby defeating the purpose of the confirm box.

What I need is the same kind of halt-all-javascript (modal) functionality that the default confirm() command provides. Is this possible in JQuery (or even in JavaScript)?

As I am not an expert in JavaScript nor in JQuery, I defer to you gurus out there. Any JQuery (or even pure JavaScript) solution is welcome (if possible).

Thanks -

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My way around this problem was to add some arbitrary data to the object, and check for that data on click. If it existed, proceed with the function as normal, otherwise confirm with a yes/no (in my case using a jqtools overlay). If the user clicks yes - insert the data in the object, simulate another click and wipe the data. If they click no, just close the overlay.

Here is my example:

$('button').click(function(){
    if ($(this).data('confirmed')) {
        // Do stuff
    } else {
        confirm($(this));
    }
});

And this is what I did to override the confirm function (using a jquery tools overlay):

window.confirm = function(obj){
    $('#dialog').html('\
        <div>\
            <h2>Confirm</h2>\
            <p>Are you sure?</p>\
            <p>\
                <button name="confirm" value="yes" class="facebox-btn close">Yes</button>\
                <button name="confirm" value="no" class="facebox-btn close">No</button>\
            </p>\
        </div>').overlay().load();
    $('button[name=confirm]').click(function(){
        if ($(this).val() == 'yes') {
            $('#dialog').overlay().close();
            obj.data('confirmed', true).click().removeData('confirmed');
        } else {
            $('#dialog').overlay().close();
        }
    });
}

answered 2011-05-11T15:40:11.053

Is a Modal Confirm Box Using JQuery Possible?

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