In an Adobe AIR (HTML/JS) app, is it possible to display Yes/No buttons, instead of OK/Cancel in a confirm() dialog?
Anything that works with webkit should work.
Here's a related question, but all of the answers utilise jQuery, which I don't want to add just for this.
I don't believe so. In JS, confirm() is specified to only use the OK and Cancel buttons.
If you want something more complicated, you'll have to make your own dialog, or use a third-party one that provides your desired functionality (yes, including jQuery, unfortunately).
It's not possible to customise the confirm() dialog.
There are some suggestions at Javascript Customize Confirm with "Yes" or "No" but it pins down to using jQuery or implementing your own version of the jQuery dialog.
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Is it possible to put a form into an alert box and then display that to the user? Afterwards I would want to submit the data but I presume it would work the same via a 'POST' method or such.
I had a quick play around but couldn't get it to work, not much on search engines either.
Thanks for any help!
An alert box is not editable. You can use javascript to create a new browser window with your form in it.
General form is like this: window.open('url to open','window name')
You will fall foul of popup blockers if you handle 'when' you do this badly.
This is quite a nice simple walk through with live examples http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jwinopen.htm
You could use jQuery UI's dialog. This allows you to turn a DIV into a pop-up box.
I would recommend you jquery shadow: http://www.htmldrive.net/items/show/650/jQuery-Custom-PopUp-Window.html
Or if you want you can develop your own form (html, design, css, javascript).
If it's just a single input, you can use the built-in prompt() method.
Otherwise, you would have to pop up your own form.
Is there a way to change the name of a alert dialog box in jscript, like instead of it saying ("Alert" "Message") can it say something like ("Hello" "Message") this is the script im using:
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Thanks :D
If you want to alias alert it would be:
var t = alert;
t('blah');
If you want to change the text of the alert box's title bar, you can not.
Not as far as I am aware with the default basic Javascript alert() dialog box.
In fact, different browsers will have different title bars on the dialog. Some have "Alert", others have "The page at http://someurl.com says:" and it goes on.
A far prettier, and more customisable option is to consider using something like jQuery UI. It has features like the dialog, which create a nicer, in-page dialog box with customisable buttons, title, and content.
It requires use of the jQuery library, which is a hugely popular Javascript library to greatly ease Javascript development, and plainly, make it more fun.
The best way to implement an alert with a custom title, would be to implement a custom dialog. You may want to look in to using jQuery UI Dialogs. There are many other implementations of custom Dialog controls. Such as SimpleModal Dialog.
The short answer is: no.
However, alert is a host method and browsers can chose to implement it however they like. But all browsers currently do not let script modify the standard alert dialogue. You can create your own alert dialogue though using a suitably styled and positioned element.
If you mean function renaming
<script type="text/javascript">
function hello(msg){
alert(msg);
}
</script>
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Hello guys
I know that is probably a stupid question but i had to be sure after all.
Can i add an input of type password in a prompt box?
prompt box is a one of javascript's Popup boxes.(Alert,Confirm and Prompt)
No, you can't.
The popup is browser controlled and can't be changed.
As the documentation shows, you can only supply a message and default text.
You can use javascript to create your own overlay that simulates a prompt popup.
See the jQuery UI Dialog for ideas and examples.
If you literally mean the prompt function, you can't. What you can do instead is pop up a div or similar above the main content of your page (using absolute positioning and a z-index value) and put the password box in there.
More in the various answers to these questions:
How to have a JQUERY POPUP window by using only JQUERY (without other extra JS)
Making a Javascript Yes/No Confirmation Box?
There are a variety of libraries you can use that will do the hard work for you (not that it's that hard, but still). If you're already using a library like jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Closure, or any of several others, you may find that there's a plug-in designed for use with that library (jQuery UI for jQuery, for instance). If not, there are plenty of stand-alone implementations. Look for "light box" or "lightweight window" or "JavaScript dialog box", etc.
Note that any of these will require a bit of a change to the logic of your code, since prompt brings the browser and your script to a screeching halt until the prompt is dismissed by the user, whereas this mechanism of flying an element over the top of the content is, by its nature, asynchronous.
Is there a type of Javascript dialog box (similar to alert) that offers customizable, multiple buttons (besides "OK") and will return some sort of indication of which button was clicked? I am not looking for a JQuery or third-party dialog/modal box, I'm just wondering if there's something already built into Javascript. As far as I've researched, Javascript only offers alert(), confirm(), and prompt().
Thanks!
Short answer: No.
Sorry nothing like that available to Javascript.
I think if you want something more than the built in alert, confirm and prompt which you already know about, then you will need to use a third party script/library or develop your own modal windows.
With alerts you can have text inputs. I was hoping you could put check boxes in. Is this possible?
http://www.w3schools.com/JS/js_popup.asp
No, you would need to build out a dialog box in order to achieve this.
You are able to achieve this with relative ease through jQuery and more specifically the jQuery UI plugin, allowing dialog boxes to come up without too much know-how
No. The only options are:
alert (display string);
confirm (display string and get yes/no|true/false back);
prompt (display string and get input string back)
You can create your own modal dialog using a variety of techniques. Under the hood, they all essentially do the same thing - display a separate web page in a popup window or iFrame and disable input access to the rest of the browser until the popup is closed. These are pretty easy to get wrong (hard to use + very annoying) but when done right they offer the developer a lot of power - since it's a complete web page you control, you can pass complex JavaScript objects between the dialog and the main browser window, instead of having to rely on the primitive interaction modes offered by the out-of-the-box dialogs.
Pretty shure it isn't possible. However, you can simulate a "alert box" with the contents you need. JQuery, for example, is a great javascript framework to achieve that.
no, but you can create a function that opens a alert box with html in it, like on facebook.
No, but you can create functions with alert boxes.
javascript:alert("Hello");
javascript:confirm("Hello");
javascript:prompt("Hello");
are the inly available ones.