reloading page after the alert button

After approve button the alert message will appear and has 2 option button “ok” and “cancel”. after clicking ok the page will reload, the problem is I can’t do multiple approval because after clicking the alert ok button the page will reload.

I tried the onclick function but it still reloading after i click the approve button, also tried to remove the alert (data-confirm) but still reload the page.

I’m using these line of code:

<button type="submit" name="status" value="2" class="btn btn-success btn-sm m-b-0-0 waves-effect waves-light" data-confirm="Are you sure you want to approve this leave application?"  title="Approve">
    <i class="fa fa-check"></i>
</button>

This is the output of button:

image of button output

How can I multiple approve without appearing of alert but it still record the data?

after i click the check button the pending must change into aprrove, how to do that without reloading or refreching the page?

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these is the whole code of the image