Confirmation alert on clicking an action

[ashishnitinpatil]

Sometimes one would like to have a confirmation prompt when performing a certain critical action or ones which may not be easily reversible. Not sure if this is a must have feature but I implemented this by adding a custom templates/admin/change_list.html with following content -

{% extends "admin/change_list.html" %}

{% block extrahead %}
    {{ block.super }}
    <script>
        (function() {
            document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
                let inline_actions = document.querySelectorAll(".inline_actions input");
                for (var i=0; i < inline_actions.length; i++) {
                    inline_actions[i].addEventListener("click", function(e) {
                        if(!confirm("Do you really want to " + e.target.value + "?")) {
                            e.preventDefault();
                        }
                    });
                }
            });
        })();
    </script>
{% endblock %}

It basically prompts user to confirm the action before it is submitted to the backend. If user has clicked it accidentally, he can safely say no & the e.preventDefault(); would execute & stop the inline action from submitting.

[escaped]

Hi @ashishnitinpatil,

thanks for pointing this out. This is a good idea, though I don't think it is an essential feature. Not everyone needs it as this module already has support for intermediate (confirmation) pages. However, I think it would be great to have a paragraph about this. Would you mind submitting a PR, which adds this to the readme?

Many thanks!