Javascript cannot the ColdFusion <cfset> portion of your code based upon
your Javascript conditional logic. Your example will not work and jake was
trying to show you a Javascript way. If the closeboxflag is a form element,
it would be fire some sort of Javascript event to perform what you are
trying to do or perhaps update a hidden form field that will be processed by
a ColdFusion action page.
Teddy
On 9/25/06, Jonathan Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> what i'm trying to do is a check from the user. if the user clicks ok,
> then a database update is completed, or if the user clicks cancel, nothing
> should happen. i was trying to set closeboxflag2 to true so that:
>
> <cfif closeboxflag2 eq "true">
> //perform database update
> <cfelse>
> //do nothing
> </cfif>
>
> hope that makes sense, thanks for the help!
>
>
> >I'm not sure where you are trying to reference closeboxflag2 from but
> >from the looks of your code, you are mixing things that shouldn't be
> >mixed. The following works:
> >
> ><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
> > var closeboxflag = false;
> > var closeboxflag = "";
> > closeboxflag = confirm("Are you sure you want to close?")
> > if (closeboxflag == true) {
> > closeboxflag2 = "true";
> > } else {
> > closeboxflag2 = "false";
> > }
> > </script>
> >
> >Jonathan Hicks wrote:
> >>
>
>
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