hyper link that shows confirmation msg box

Question

I want to use a hyperlink that shows a confirmation msg box. It will process it if 'yes' selected otherwise not.

for example...

<a href="delete?id="+12>delete</a>

that shows a msg box for confirmation do you want to delete if yes then it executes the delete servlet otherwise not.

Answer 1

You can try with this simple but very effective solution

<a href="Your link if use click yes" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure?')">Link</a>

This will redirect to the given link if user Confirms.

Here is the jsfiddle you can check it here.