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There is an attribute _method for the input element (m) which value is delete…
I’m using Firefox 3 over Debian lenny…

Hope you excuse my english.

a href=”/books/1″ onclick=”if (confirm(‘Are you sure?’)) { var f = document.createElement(‘form’); f.style.display = ‘none’; this.parentNode.appendChild(f); f.method = ‘POST’; f.action = this.href;var m = document.createElement(‘input’); m.setAttribute(‘type’, ‘hidden’); m.setAttribute(‘name’, ‘_method’); m.setAttribute(‘value’, ‘delete’); f.appendChild(m);var s = document.createElement(‘input’); s.setAttribute(‘type’, ‘hidden’); s.setAttribute(‘name’, ‘authenticity_token’); s.setAttribute(‘value’, ‘c5bdd13d76321b12765d812785990517ef070bf5′); f.appendChild(s);f.submit(); };return false;”>Destroy

taking a closer look at the link it looks like the javascript is creating an HTML form on the fly and submitting is a POST request (not a DELETE as you mentioned)

i could be wrong… and if i am i would very much like to understand how the html and javascript ask the browser to generate a DELETE request. not sure that it matters but i used IE7 on a Windows Vista (64-bit) box.

thanks again for your tutorials… i have learned a ton from them.