[Javascript] JavaScript Prompt Box

[Paul Novitski]

Mark,

It sounds like you probably want to 'roll your own' prompt box instead of 
using the built-in javascript prompt function.  Something like:

<div id="PromptBox" style="position: absolute;  visibility: hidden;">

         <div id="PromptBoxHead">How many copies?</div>

         <input id="PromptBoxInput" type=text />

         <button onClick="jsProcessPromptBox('true')">OK</button>
         <button onClick="jsProcessPromptBox('false')">CANCEL</button>
</div>

<select onChange="jsRevealPromptBox(options[selectedIndex].value)">
         <option></option>
         <option value="winnt">Windows NT</option>
         <option value="win2k">Windows 2000</option>
         <option value="winxp">Windows XP</option>
</select>

To reveal the prompt box, position it wherever you want on the screen and 
toggle its visibility.  Or fix its x/y coordinates in CSS with 
#PromptBox{}, where you can also set its colors, borders, etc.

The other alternative is to create a child window with window.open().

Paul


At 09:29 AM 4/16/2004, mark wrote:
>Thanks very much. That's the general idea but I want to see if it's
>possible to control the behaviour of this prompt, i.e. where it appears on
>page, etc.
>Mark.