Appearance of a confirm box

[stewartwebb]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to change the appearance of a confirm box? Like change the colour of the buttons and backgound.

Thanks

Stewart

 

[HowardMarks]

Hi Stewart

You can do this sort of thing using standard CSS applied to the button.

Best wishes

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[Foamcow]

You may be able to do it using some proprietary MS code for IE, but generally they are OS/browser dependent.

You could always make your own custom box using a <div> and some javascript to show/hide it.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You can do this sort of thing using standard CSS applied to the button.

No you can't. As Foamcow says, these are functions of the browser/OS, and you have little to no control over them.

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[stewartwebb]

Thanks BRPS

Stewart.

 

[stewartwebb]

Ok,

What i'm going to try and do now is create a custom confirm box which can be used on many pages.
My plan is to try and make the code the same as you would on a normal call to display a confirm box, but to change 'confirm' to 'funcConfirm', which will call a javascript juction and do a window.open.
I have 1 small problem that I can see. When you do a confirm the code stops until the user clicks a button, then continues. But with a window.open , the code will open the window but then contine through the rest of the code. Is there a way to make the code stop until the user has clicked 1 of the buttons? Or does anyone have a better way to solve this problem?

Thanks

Stewart.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

In IE, you could use a modal dialog... but I don't think these are (fully) supported in other popular browsers. If your browser audience is IE only (e.g. intranet, etc), then this would be one way to go. Otherwise, you'll have to use some clevere DHTML trickery to get around this.

Dan



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[stewartwebb]

Thanks BRPS,

All the users are ie. So i'll look into modal dialog thanks.

Stewart.

 

[Vragabond]

Or does anyone have a better way to solve this problem?

Use the regular confirm box. It will confuse people less, load quicker and work in all environments as expected.

 

[tsdragon]

If your audience is IE-only go for the modal dialog. You can style it just about any way you like, so it will fit the style of your site better. It's very easy to use and very flexible too. I've used them for everything from simple OK dialogs to input dialogs.

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