javascript confirm boxes for list of messages

[dadamssg]

I'm not really familiar with javascript but i've come up with a confirm box that asks if they really want to delete a message but i don't know how to incorporate it into a while loop. I'm listing out all subjects of messages sent to a person. And then i have an X next to each one for them to click and when they do i want the confirm box to pop up. I just don't know how to incorporate this in the head

<script type="text/javascript">
function show_confirm()
{
var r=confirm("Really delete?");
if (r==true)
  {
  window.location = "deletemessage.php?ms=<?php echo $row['messageid']; ?>"
  }
else
  {
  }
}
</script>

with this while loop in the body

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {  
echo "<div id='mwrap'><div id='mwidth'><div id='floatl'>{$status}</div><div id='floatr'><a href= profile.php?uu={$row['sentby']} class='profile'>{$row['sentby']}</a><br><div class='user'>{$time}</div></div></div>";
echo "<div id='twidth'><a href = showmessage.php?ms={$row['messageid']} class='subject'>{$id}</a></div>";
echo "<div id='delete'><a href ='#' onclick='show_confirm()' class='delete'>X</a></div></div>";                                         }
echo "<br>";

the problem right now is that the confirm box only pulls up the number for the first message....so all of the X's link to the same exact alert box

[xtopolis]

Pass the id in the while loop, receive it in the javascript function.

<script type="text/javascript">
function show_confirm(mid)
{
  var r=confirm("Really delete?");
  
  if (r==true){
    window.location = "deletemessage.php?ms=" + mid;
  }
}
</script>

(this above could be made more nifty with ajax)

 

...
echo '<div id="delete"><a href ="#" onclick="show_confirm(\'" . $row['messageid'] . "\')" class="delete">X</a></div></div>'; 

 

Should be something similar to that. not tested.

[dadamssg]

yeah i would love to use ajax...im just ajax illiterate...