Getting result of Confirm dialog on Cancel Button in jQuery event hander

Question

On one side I have a form with submit/cancel buttons and the cancel has an onclick event (to do some cleanup) that is wrapped in a standard confirm dialog. All standard stuff.

But then I have a second script (and it MUST be a second script) that may only sometimes be loaded, that needs to add more tasks if the form is cancelled. So - I can listen for the onclick...

$( "#cancelBtn" ).on( "click", function(a) {
    // do more stuff...
});

but I only want to 'do more stuff' if the confirm around the onclick is OK. I am probably missing something stupidly simple but I have been at this all day and am about to give up! Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Update: I can not change the form onclick code - it has to stay separate and as it now is.... so the confirm has to stay where it is.

Answer 1

Do it like this:

$( "#cancelBtn" ).on( "click", function(a) {
    if (confirm('Are you sure you want to cancel?')) { // Standard confirmation message.
        // Pressed OK.
        // do more stuff...
    } else {
        // Pressed Cancel.
    }
});

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

EDIT: Since you can't change the script performing form duty, a solution would be to overwrite the confirm() -function:

var _confirm = window.confirm;
window.confirm = function() {
    //catch result
    var confirmed = _confirm.apply(window,arguments);
    if (confirmed) {
        //confirm ok, do some tasks
    } else {
        //confirm cancelled, do some cleanup
    }
    //pass result on to the caller
    return confirmed;
};

http://jsfiddle.net/sofcuoab/

---

put the tasks in the second script in

function doMoreStuff(){
    //more tasks
}

and call it in your confirm-clause like this

if (typeof doMoreStuff === "function") {
    doMoreStuff();
}

or like this

try {
    doMoreStuff();
}
catch(err) {
    //no second script loaded
}