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How can i add a Javascript alert to the hyperlink ? I want to make the alert pop up when someone click on the link . This is the script for now -

<a href="<?php echo ($link1);?>" onclick="popitup();" data-role="button" data-theme="b" data-inline="true" > Send </a>

And i want to add this to the link

<script type="text/javascript">alert('Text.');</script>

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You should define the popitup() function that you are calling in your onclick attribute:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function popitup() {
        alert('Text.');
    }
</script>

also if you want to prevent the link from redirecting under certain conditions you could return false from this handler:

<a href="<?php echo ($link1);?>" onclick="return popitup();" data-role="button" data-theme="b" data-inline="true"> Send </a>

and then:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function popitup() {
        if (confirm('Are you sure you want to do that?')) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
</script>
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if the alert should do some kind of logic you can use the return function like this

<a href="newlink.html" onClick="return confirm('do you really wanna go to this link?')" >the link</a>

or just add the alert w/o any logic in this way

<a href="newlink.html" onClick="alert('you are going to the link! beware!')" >the link</a>

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Try this

<a href="new.html" onclick="alert('This is going to link')"> link </a>

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Darin's solution is probably better though as writing javascript in-line is bad practice.
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You can add javascript statements to a href attribute by putting javascript: before the statement, so it would be something like:

<a href="javascript: alert('Text.');" ></a>

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