use
onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to permanently delete this post?');"
Question
echo "<td><a onclick=\"confirm('Are you sure you want to permanently delete this post?');\" href='posts.php?id=".$res['id']."'>view</a></td>";
Generated with PHP, the confirm isn't popping up.. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for lookin.
Solution
use
onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to permanently delete this post?');"
OTHER TIPS
Try:
echo "<td><a onclick='return confirm('Are you sure you want to permanently delete this post?');' href='posts.php?id=".$res['id']."'>view</a>";
use instead:
echo "<td><a onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to permanently delete this post?');" href="posts.php?id=".$res['id']."'>view</a></td>";
confirm
return true
or false
Add return false or true to avoid further execution
if(Confirm())
return true;
else
return false;