if it is a submit button, just put onClick="javascript:confirm('Are you 
sure...');" and it should handle it all correctly.

Jonathan Hicks 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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