I am trying to pop up a confirmation modal when the user presses the delete button on the edit form. The modal pops up fine, but when jQuery should be submitting the form, it's not doing anything. I have delete as a type="button", because when it is of type submit the modal function does not hold up the process and it just deletes the user right away.
The HTML ...
-- EDIT --
(I added the <form> tags)
<form action="/admin/edit-user" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="post" name="edit_user_form" id="edit_user_form">
...
<p><input type="submit" value="Save" name="submit" id="submit"/></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Cancel" name="cancel" id="cancel"/></p>
<p><input type="button" value="Delete User" name="delete_btn" id="delete_btn" onclick="confirmDeleteUser();"/></p>
...
</form>
...
<div id="dialog-modal" title="Confirm Delete User">
<p><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-alert" style="float:left; margin:0 7px 0 0;"></span> Are you sure you wish to delete this user?</p>
<p>To continue editing, click cancel.</p>
</div>
The Javascript:
function confirmDeleteUser()
{
$('#dialog-modal').dialog({
autoOpen: false,
width: 400,
modal: true,
resizable: false,
buttons: {
"Cancel": function() {
$(this).dialog("close");
return false;
},
"Delete User": function() {
var self = $(this);
var form = $('#edit_user_form');
tmpElm = $('<input type="hidden" />');
tmpElm.attr('name', 'delete');
tmpElm.attr('id', 'delete');
tmpElm.val(true);
tmpElm.appendTo(form);
form.submit();
return true;
}
}
});
$('#dialog-modal').dialog('open');
}
When I inspect the source, I'm seeing that the code is properly appending the new hidden element, but the submit just doesn't seem to want to fire. What step am I missing?