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Bootstrap-confirmation not respecting options

Just adding the bootstrap-confirmation extension for Bootstrap popover to some buttons on a project. I'm having issues with the options not being respected. I'm trying to get the popups to work as singletons and dismiss when the user clicks outside of them singleton and data-popout options, respectively - both set to true. I'm also not seeing any of my defined callback behavior happening.
I defined the options both in the HTML tags and in a function and neither works. Still getting multiple boxes and they don't dismiss as expected.
My JS is loaded after all other libraries and is in my custom.js file in my footer.
JS is as follows:
$(function() {
$('body').confirmation({
selector: '[data-toggle="confirmation"]',
singleton: true,
popout: true
});
$('.confirmation-callback').confirmation({
onConfirm: function() { alert('confirm') },
onCancel: function() { alert('cancel') }
});
});
An example of the box implemented on a button in my HTML is the following:
<a class="btn btn-danger" data-toggle="confirmation" data-singleton="true" data-popout="true"><em class="fa fa-trash"></em></a>
Any pointers would be appreciated. I even changed the default options in the bootstrap-confirmation.js file itself to what I want and still no luck.

Turns out I needed to rearrange a couple things to get this to work. I've left in the last_clicked_id etc stuff as I needed to add that to get the id value of what I'd just clicked.
// Product removal popup logic
var last_clicked_id = null;
var last_clicked_product = null;
$('.btn.btn-danger.btn-confirm').click(function () {
last_clicked_id = $(this).data("id");
last_clicked_product = $(this).data("product");
});
$('.btn.btn-danger.btn-confirm').confirmation({
singleton: true,
popout: true,
onConfirm: function () {
alert("DEBUG: Delete confirmed for id : " + last_clicked_product);
// TODO: Add AJAX to wipe entry and refresh page
},
onCancel: function () {
alert("DEBUG: Delete canceled for id : " + last_clicked_product);
}
});
I was a step ahead of myself with the callback logic which was not getting executed. Fixed by simply adding it to onConfirm: and onCancel: key values in the .confirmation() function. A bit of a RTFM moment there but this was unfortunately not very clear in the documentation.

Javascript redirect only seems to work when chrome debugger is open

I have written a Jquery-Ui Dialog to popup as a confirmation on particular links. This however does not redirect to my Delete page correctly. However if I open the debugger in chrome to debug, then the code works as expected.
I have found the same question, however the solution does not seem to work for me. It is exactly the same scenario though. Question here JavaScript redirect not working and works only in Chrome if debugger is turned on
So I have my link
<div id="confirm-dialog">
<div class="dialog-inner">
<p id="confirm-dialog-message"></p>
</div>
</div>
Delete
And I have my javascript
$('.confirmLink').click(function (e) {
BodyScrolling(false);
var theHref = $(this).attr("href");
var theTitle = $(this).attr("title") == null ? "Confirm..." : $(this).attr("title");
var theText = $(this).attr("data-confirm-message") == null ? "Are you sure?" : $(this).attr("data-confirm-message");
$("#confirm-dialog-message").html(theText);
$("#confirm-dialog").parent().css({ position: "fixed" }).end().dialog("open");
$("#confirm-dialog").dialog({
title: theTitle,
close: function() {
BodyScrolling(true);
},
buttons: [
{
text: "Yes",
class: "mws-button red",
click: function () {
$("#confirm-dialog").dialog("close");
window.location.href = theHref;
return false;
}
},
{
text: "No",
class: "mws-button black",
click: function () {
$("#confirm-dialog").dialog("close");
}
}]
});
return false;
});
So when I click my Delete link, I am indeed presented with my confirm dialog with Yes and No buttons, css styled correctly, and has captured the link href and bound it to the Yes button. If I click "No", I am kicked back and nothing further happens - Correct!
If I click Yes, it should take send me on to the original href that it captured. I have thrown alert(theHref) on the Yes Button click just before the redirect and it does show me the correct address (/Customer/Delete/73865878346587), but the redirect does not happen.
When I open the chrome debugger to debug the javascript or see if any errors occurred, then everything works as expected and redirects me correctly!
In IE, it does not work either.
I have tried...
window.location.href = theHref
window.location = theHref
location.href = theHref
$(location).attr('href', theHref)
I have also tried adding return false; after my redirect. Nothing works.
The link I added above to the same question said to make sure that the Yes button is being rendered on the page as a ... which mine is.
Can anyone shed any light?

Instead of window.location.href = theHref;
have you tried window.location.replace(theHref);?
Back to basics, try: window.location = theHref;

Well I have found the answer. Javascript was a red herring!
I did try to remove the confirmLink jQuery class so that the link was just a standard link that went straight to my controller to perofm my delete. When I did this test, the link worked perfectly. Therefore I denoted the problem be with my javascript. However, it seems that this was not quite the case and had only worked again if the Debugger in Chrome had been or was open at the time aswell.
When I revisited the non confirm link option again, I found this not to work properly, therefore denoting the problem not with the javascript.
It appears that you cannot perform a Delete action from a HTML Link in MVC. This is obviously because of security risks involved as anyone could perform a Delete on an Id. I had thought of this in my implementation and had added code to check where the Request had come from and if it wasn't from my List page, then it threw back an error and wouldn't perform the Delete. It didn't matter what I named my controller either, eg Test, the link performing my HTTP GET request would never hit this. There must be some algorithm that determines what the action is doing and stops you from performing the action on a HttpGet request. For more information about Delete Actions, check out this post http://stephenwalther.com/archive/2009/01/21/asp-net-mvc-tip-46-ndash-donrsquot-use-delete-links-because
It seems that you can only perform this by a HTTP Post, which means either using a Ajax.ActionLink or by using a Form and a submit button. Then your Action must be specified for HttpPost.
If, like me, you wish to keep your Link as a HTML Link, then you can do the following which is what I did, code below. I kept my HTML Link, set it up to point to my HttpPost Delete Action. Added my confirmLink class for jquery to bind my dialog box to. I pick up the link href and set the Yes button in the jquery dialog to dynamically create a Form and set the method to post and the action to the links href. Then I can call submit on the new dynamically created form to perform my Post to my Delete action.
My Delete Link
Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", "Caterer", new { id = caterer.Id }, new { #class = "mws-ic-16 ic-delete imageButton confirmLink", #data_confirm_title = "Delete " + caterer.Name, #data_confirm_message = "Are you sure you want to delete this caterer, " + caterer.Name + "?" })
My Javascript
function LoadConfirm() {
$('.confirmLink').click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
BodyScrolling(false);
var actionHref = $(this).attr("href");
var confirmTitle = $(this).attr("data-confirm-title");
confirmTitle = confirmTitle == null ? "Confirm..." : confirmTitle;
var confirmMessage = $(this).attr("data-confirm-message");
confirmMessage = confirmMessage == null ? "Are you sure?" : confirmMessage;
$("#confirm-dialog").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
modal: true,
width: 400,
closeOnEscape: true,
close: function () { BodyScrolling(true); },
title: confirmTitle,
resizable: false,
buttons: [
{
text: "Yes",
class: "mws-button red",
click: function () {
StartLoading();
$(this).dialog("close");
var form = document.createElement("form");
form.setAttribute("method", "post");
form.setAttribute("action", actionHref);
form.submit();
}
},
{
text: "No",
class: "mws-button black",
click: function () {
$("#confirm-dialog").dialog("close");
return false;
}
}
]
});
$("#confirm-dialog #confirm-dialog-message").html(confirmMessage);
$("#confirm-dialog").parent().css({ position: "fixed" });
$("#confirm-dialog").dialog("open");
});
}
My Action
[HttpPost]
[Authorize(Roles = "User")]
public ActionResult Delete(long id)
{
//Perform my delete
return RedirectToActionPermanent("List");
}

Calling href in Callback function

I have a anchor tag in my page for logout.
<a href="/logout/" id="lnk-log-out" />
Here I am showing a Popup for confirmation with jQuery UI dialog.
If user click Yes from dialog it has to execute the link button's default action, I mean href="/logout".
If No clicked a Popup box should be disappeared.
jQuery Code
$('#lnk-log-out').click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var logOffDialog = $('#user-info-msg-dialog');
logOffDialog.html("Are you sure, do you want to Logout?");
logOffDialog.dialog({
title: "Confirm Logout",
height: 150,
width: 500,
bgiframe: true,
modal: true,
buttons: {
'Yes': function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
return true;
},
'No': function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
return false;
}
}
});
});
});
The problem is I am not able to fire anchor's href when User click YES.
How can we do this?
Edit: Right now I managed in this way
'Yes': function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
window.location.href = $('#lnk-log-out').attr("href");
}

In the anonymous function called when 'Yes' is fired, you want to do the following instead of just returning true:
Grab the href (you can get this easily using $('selector').attr('href');)
Perform your window.location.href to the url you grabbed in point 1
If you want the a tag to just do it's stuff, remove any preventDefault() or stopPropagation(). Here I have provided two different ways :)
Don't use document.location, use window.location.href instead. You can see why here.
Your code in the 'Yes' call should look something like, with your code inserted of course:
'Yes': function () {
// Get url
var href = $('#lnk-log-out').attr('href');
// Go to url
window.location.href = href;
return true; // Not needed
}, ...
Note: Thanks to Anthony in the comments below: use window.location.href = ... instead of window.location.href(), because it's not a function!

I have used this in many of my projects so i suggest window.location.href
'Yes': function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
window.location.href="your url"
return true;
},

Redefining a jQuery dialog button

In our application we use a general function to create jQuery dialogs which contain module-specific content. The custom dialog consists of 3 buttons (Cancel, Save, Apply). Apply does the same as Save but also closes the dialog.
Many modules are still using a custom post instead of an ajax-post. For this reason I'm looking to overwrite/redefine the buttons which are on a specific dialog.
So far I've got the buttons, but I'm unable to do something with them. Is it possible to get the buttons from a dialog (yes, I know) but apply a different function to them?
My code so far:
function OverrideDialogButtonCallbacks(sDialogInstance) {
oButtons = $( '#dialog' ).dialog( 'option', 'buttons' );
console.log(oButtons); // logs the buttons correctly
if(sDialogInstance == 'TestInstance') {
oButtons.Save = function() {
alert('A new callback has been assigned.');
// code for ajax-post will come here.
}
}
}

$('#dialog').dialog({
'buttons' : {
'Save' : {
id:"btn-save", // provide the id, if you want to apply a callback based on id selector
click: function() {
//
},
},
}
});
Did you try this? to override button's callback based on the need.

No need to re-assign at all. Try this.
function OverrideDialogButtonCallbacks(dialogSelector) {
var button = $(dialogSelector + " ~ .ui-dialog-buttonpane")
.find("button:contains('Save')");
button.unbind("click").on("click", function() {
alert("save overriden!");
});
}
Call it like OverrideDialogButtonCallbacks("#dialog");
Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/codovations/yzfVT/

You can get the buttons using $(..).dialog('option', 'buttons'). This returns an array of objects that you can then rewire by searching through them and adjusting the click event:
// Rewire the callback for the first button
var buttons = $('#dialog').dialog('option', 'buttons');
buttons[0].click = function() { alert('Click rewired!'); };
See this fiddle for an example: http://jsfiddle.net/z4TTH/2/
If necessary, you can check the text of the button using button[i].text.
UPDATE:
The buttons option can be one of two forms, one is an array as described above, the other is an object where each property is the name of the button. To rewire the click event in this instance it's necessary to update the buttons option in the dialog:
// Rewire the callback for the OK button
var buttons = $('#dialog').dialog('option', 'buttons');
buttons.Ok = function() { alert('Click rewired!'); };
$('#dialog').dialog('option', 'buttons', buttons);
See this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/z4TTH/3/

Can you try binding your new function code with Click event of Save?
if(sDialogInstance == 'TestInstance') {
$('#'+savebtn_id).click(function() {
alert('A new callback has been assigned.');
// code for ajax-post will come here.
});
}

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 -

I just had to solve the same problem. I wound up using the dialog widget from JQuery UI. I was able to implement this without using callbacks with the caveat that the dialog must be partially initialized in the click event handler for the link you want to use the confirmation functionality with (if you want to use this for more than one link). This is because the target URL for the link must be injected into the event handler for the confirmation button click.
Here's my solution, abstracted away to be suitable for an example. I use a CSS class to indicate which links should have the confirmation behavior.
<div id="dialog" title="Confirmation Required">
Are you sure about this?
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#dialog").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
modal: true
});
$(".confirmLink").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var targetUrl = $(this).attr("href");
$("#dialog").dialog({
buttons : {
"Confirm" : function() {
window.location.href = targetUrl;
},
"Cancel" : function() {
$(this).dialog("close");
}
}
});
$("#dialog").dialog("open");
});
}); // end of $(document).ready
</script>
<a class="confirmLink" href="http://someLinkWhichRequiresConfirmation.com">Click here</a>
<a class="confirmLink" href="http://anotherSensitiveLink">Or, you could click here</a>

Check out http://www.84bytes.com/2008/06/02/jquery-modal-dialog-boxes/
They have a good variety of modal-boxes for JQuery.
I think you should see http://www.ericmmartin.com/simplemodal/
A modal dialog override of the JavaScript confirm function. Demonstrates the use of onShow as well as how to display a modal dialog confirmation instead of the default JavaScript confirm dialog.

Did you see the jQuery Modal Dialog on jQuery UI site?
Modal Confirmation Dialog demo

I blogged about the solution to this issue here: http://markmintoff.com/2011/03/asp-net-jquery-confirm-dialog/
Even though the article is geared towards ASP.Net it can be easily adapted to php. It relies on preventing the click with a return false and when the user clicks "OK" or "YES" or what-have-you; the link or button is simply clicked again.
var confirmed = false;
function confirmDialog(obj)
{
if(!confirmed)
{
$( "#dialog-confirm" ).dialog({
resizable: false,
height:140,
modal: true,
buttons: {
"Yes": function()
{
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
confirmed = true; obj.click();
},
"No": function()
{
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
}
}
});
}
return confirmed;
}
Give it a try and let me know what you think. I hope this solves your problem.

You should be able to override the standard window.confirm function be writing the following code.
window.confirm = modalConfirm
then you will need to make a function like this
function modalConfirm(message){
// put your code here and bind "return true/false" to the click event
// of the "Yes/No" buttons.
}
This should work, although I haven't tested it yet. I am going to do exactly this right now and will let you all know how it worked.
Edit:
I have tested my example above now and it was not possible, you will have to pass in a callback function to your overwritten confirm function like this:
function modalConfirm(message, callback){
...
$("button.yes").click(function(){
callback(result);
});
...
}
..making your call to the function look like this:
confirm("Are you sure?", function(result){
alert(result);
});
In other words, it is not possible to completely override the default window.confirm function without causing a nasty loop that causes the browser to hang. I think that you will have to modify your confirm calls like above.

Since this question seems to be missing the canonical answer: there is no way to programatically pause (and resume) javascript execution like alert or confirm do.
That being said, relying on this behaviour today is usually considered bad practice given the single threaded nature of javascript, and the reason why the aforementioned functions do pause execution is probably because they were designed when the web was still at a very early stage, and later left unchanged to ensure compatibility. Since the focus nowadays is in writing as much non-blocking js code as possible, it's unlikely the functionality to programmatically halt js will ever make it to any future specification of ECMAScript, so your best bet is to rework your site to make sure confirm and alert dialogs can co-exist with other javascript code running in the background.

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();
}
});
}

I have a solution that can be used to replace the default window.confirm function. It doesn't require you overriding window.confirm as that is not fully possible.
My solution allows you to have a general class like me, let's say 'confirm-action' that you place on any element that requires a confirmation before being processed. The script is very simple and utilizes jQuery, jQuery UI Dialog and no other plugins.
You can find the complete demo of the implementation on jsFiddle, http://jsfiddle.net/74NDD/39/.
Usage:
Add this javascript code in your html head or before any other click
binding you have in your javascript.
$("#dialog:ui-dialog").dialog("destroy");
$('.confirm-action').live('click', function(e) {
$self = $(this);
if (e && e.stopImmediatePropagation && $self.data('confirmed') !== true) {
e.stopImmediatePropagation();
$('#confirm-action-dialog').dialog({
height: 110,
modal: true,
resizable: false,
draggable: false,
buttons: {
'Yes': function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
$self.data('confirmed', true);
$self.click();
},
'No': function() {
$self.data('confirmed', false);
$(this).dialog('close');
}
}
});
} else if ($self.data('confirmed') === true) {
e = window.event;
e.cancelBubble = false;
$self.data('confirmed', false);
}
return false;
});
Place this html somewhere in the body (it is hidden by default).
<div style="display:none;" id="confirm-action-dialog" title="Confirm Action?">
<p>
<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-alert"></span>
Are you sure you want to continue?
</p>
</div>
Put the class 'confirm-action' on any element that requires confirmation.
confirm-action
This solution works perfect as it does not alter jQuery event bubbling, it merely pauses (stops) all other events until the user decides what they want to do.
I hope this is helpful for someone else as I was unable to find any other solution that doesn't require me installing another jQuery plugin or do some other hack.

Building on top of Banu's solution (thanks a ton!) to make it a one pop solution on top of each page. Paste this code inside:
$(document).ready
And add "confirmLinkFollow" class to all links you want confirmed:
$(".confirmLinkFollow").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var targetUrl = $(this).attr("href");
var $dialog_link_follow_confirm = $('<div></div>').
html("<p>Are you sure?</p>").
dialog({autoOpen: false,
title: 'Please Confirm',
buttons : {
"Confirm" : function() {
window.location.href = targetUrl;
},
"Cancel" : function() {
$(this).dialog("close");
}
},
modal: true,
minWidth: 250,
minHeight: 120
}
);
$dialog_link_follow_confirm.dialog("open");
});

Put the redirect inside the function like:
<script>
function confirmRedirect(url, desciption) {
if (confirmWindow(desciption)) {
window.location = url;
}
}
</script>
And call it like this:
Go!

Almost three years later, I am looking for something similar. Since I have not found an acceptable "quick" solution, I wrote something that comes very close to the criteria of the OP. I figure others may find it useful in the future.
JavaScript is event-driven and that means it does not support any sort of "wait" or "sleep" loop that we can use to pause a pure-javascript confirm function. The options involve burning processor cycles, using a browser plugin, or AJAX. In our increasingly mobile world, and with sometimes spotty internet connections, none of these are great solutions. This means that we have to return from our "confirm" function immediately.
However, since there is no "false" logic in the code snippet above (ie. nothing is done when the user clicks "Cancel"), we can trigger the "click" or "submit" event again when the user clicks "OK." Why not set a flag and react based on that flag within our "confirm" function?
For my solution, I opted to use FastConfirm rather than a "modal" dialog. You can easily modify the code to use anything you want but my example was designed to use this:
https://github.com/pjparra/Fast-Confirm
Due to the nature of what this does, I do not see a clean way to package it up. If you feel that this has too many rough edges, feel free to smooth them out or rewrite your code the way that everyone else has recommended:
/* This version of $.fn.hasEvent is slightly modified to provide support for
* the "onclick" or "onsubmit" tag attributes. I chose this because it was
* short, even if it is cryptic.
*
* Learn more about the code by Sven Eisenschmidt, which is licensed under
* the MIT and GPL at:
* http://github.com/fate/jquery-has-event
*/
(function($) {
$.fn.hasEvent = function(A, F, E) {
var L = 0;
var T = typeof A;
E = E ? E : this;
var V = (E.attr('on'+A) != undefined);
A = (T == 'string') ? $.trim(A) : A;
if (T == 'function')
F = A, A = null;
if (F == E)
delete(F);
var S = E.data('events');
for (e in S)
if (S.hasOwnProperty(e))
L++;
if (L < 1)
return V; // = false;
if (A && !F) {
return V = S.hasOwnProperty(A);
} else if(A && S.hasOwnProperty(A) && F) {
$.each(S[A], function(i, r) {
if(V == false && r.handler == F) V = true;
});
return V;
} else if(!A && F) {
$.each(S, function(i, s) {
if (V == false) {
$.each(s, function(k, r) {
if (V == false && r.handler == F)
V = true;
});
}
});
}
return V;
}
$.extend($, {hasEvent: $.fn.hasEvent});
}) (jQuery);
/* Nearly a drop-in replacement for JavaScript's confirm() dialog.
* Syntax:
* onclick="return jq_confirm(this, 'Are you sure that you want this?', 'right');"
*
* NOTE: Do not implement "false" logic when using this function. Find another way.
*/
var jq_confirm_bypass = false;
function jq_confirm(el, question, pos) {
var override = false;
var elem = $(el);
if ($.fn.fastConfirm == undefined) {
override = confirm(question);
} else if (!jq_confirm_bypass) {
if (pos == undefined) {
pos = 'right';
}
elem.fastConfirm({
position: pos,
questionText: question,
onProceed: function(trigger) {
var elem = $(trigger);
elem.fastConfirm('close');
if (elem.hasEvent('click')) {
jq_confirm_bypass = true;
elem.click();
jq_confirm_bypass = false;
}
if (elem.hasEvent('submit')) {
jq_confirm_bypass = true;
elem.submit();
jq_confirm_bypass = false;
}
// TODO: ???
},
onCancel: function(trigger) {
$(trigger).fastConfirm('close');
}
});
}
return override ? override : jq_confirm_bypass;
}
So... onclick="return confirm('Do you want to test this?');" would become onclick="return jq_confirm(this, 'Do you want to test this?');" The pos/"right" parameter is optional and is specifically for Fast-Confirm.
When you click, the jq_confirm() function will spawn the jQuery dialog and return "false." When the user clicks "OK" then jq_confirm() sets a flag, calls the original click (or submit) event, returns "true", then unsets the flag in case you want to remain on the same page.

The following link has a jQuery plugin for confirm boxes similar to constructing like confirm("something") in JavaScript
http://labs.abeautifulsite.net/archived/jquery-alerts/demo/