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derwent

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Is it possible to make an alert box pop up when a form is submitted that provides the user with several options?

Here's an example

User clicks submit
box pops up containing some text and options:

text: Have you remembered to complete the thingymajig form?

options: yes and continue (goes to form processing page)
no (goes to thingymajig form page)
what is thingymajig (goes to info page)

Is something like this possible?
 
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Not using the alert box in Javascript. You might be better off showing a DIV or something with your own HTML and trapping all the events to make it act like an alert box.

Cheers,
Jeff


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Not with the standard alert / prompt / confirm boxes, no. If you want the extra 3rd option (what is...), then you will have to use a custom DHTML solution.

Hope this helps,
Dan


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If I put the info onto the second page is it possible to have two buttons then, the first going to the form action page and the second to another url?

thanks folks
 
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You can use window.confirm to have two options (OK and Cancel) and a message.

You can detect which of the buttons was pressed, and forward to the relevant page.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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You can use window.confirm to have two options (OK and Cancel) and a message.
Click to expand...

You cannot change the name of these button, or the order they display on the message box. You cannot change the font of the message box, nor can you make the buttons bold.

These are restrictions of the browser. Not javascript.

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Jeff


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:eek:(

Looks like a confirm box is the way to go. I have found this code that creates a confirm box and displays an alert box. Is it possible to change the if else to either goto the form action page if OK is clicked and goto another page if cancel is clicked?

<script>
var x=window.confirm("have you completed step 1?")
if (x)
window.alert("Good!")
else
window.alert("Too bad")
</script>
 
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