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hussey · 2004-05-06 13:28:53

Hi I have a link like hhhh now when I press hhh a box will pop up to say are you sure? yes/no etc if I wanted to have the words Are you "Sure"? ie with the " included - how do I do this?? I have tried " and this gives me a JS error I have tried \" and ditto any…

06-05-2004 02:28PM

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Hi I have a link like
<a href="hj" onclick="return confirm("are you sure?");">hhhh</a>
now when I press hhh a box will pop up to say

are you sure?

yes/no etc

if I wanted to have the words
Are you "Sure"?

ie with the " included - how do I do this??
I have tried " and this gives me a JS error
I have tried \" and ditto

any ideas??

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#2 06-05-2004 02:36PM

seamus

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try using ' to quote your string instead of "

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#3 06-05-2004 02:39PM

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change

<a href="hj" onclick="return confirm("are you sure?";">hhhh</a>

to

<a href="hj" onclick="return confirm("are you sure?";">Are you "sure"?</a>

worked for me

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#4 06-05-2004 02:55PM

str8_away

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You can use " inside of ' or ' inside of "

So first thing is to change
<a href="hj" onclick="return confirm("are you sure?");">hhhh</a>
to
<a href="hj" onclick='return confirm("are you sure?");'>hhhh</a>
or
<a href="hj" onclick="return confirm('are you sure?');">hhhh</a>

but since you want to display are you "Sure"
then you coule use the \" but this need to match the outer

so your finnal code should be
<a href="hj" onclick='return confirm("are you \"Sure\"?");'>hhhh</a>

I hope this is clear

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#5 06-05-2004 03:07PM
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You have th bracket and semicolons in the wrong places too. Why not use *SURE*?, it's punctuationally more correct (tho I'm not sure that word is grammatically correct )

Try
</head><body><a href="hj" onclick='confirm("are you \"sure?\"");'>hhhh</a></body></html>

ok so str8 spotted it already

It is what it's.

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#6 06-05-2004 04:10PM

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Have you written a confirm() function that returns true or false?

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#7 06-05-2004 04:57PM

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Thanks str8away

Ps I only used that code as an example, so grammer isn't an issue

just one thing

I actually used return confirm(" ) rather than return confirm("

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#8 06-05-2004 06:00PM

CH

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shouldn't this thread be under Webmaster / Flash

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