Alert!!!

**IanMarlowe** · 08-02-2005, 07:14 AM

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
alert("What do you want!?");
</script>

is the text for an alert box to pop-up when a user loads a page.
My question:
Is there a way to animate the pop-up? Colors? Pictures? Anything? I have tries HTML, and come up with only stupid things. Any ideas???

**Twey** · 08-02-2005, 08:33 AM

You can't do anything to an alert - it pops up, the user clicks OK, it goes away again. If you want to add eye-candy, you'll have to use a seperate window, or perhaps a pseudo-popup in a div.

**IanMarlowe** · 08-02-2005, 08:41 AM

pseudo-popup in a div

What is that? How do I do that?

**Twey** · 08-02-2005, 08:57 AM

You have a floating div, then you use images to give it a titlebar and buttons so it looks a bit like a popup. Tends to only work well on Windows users, but others will get the idea.

**IanMarlowe** · 08-02-2005, 10:56 AM

hm.......sounds interesting. so basically
onload
open popup.html target="_blank"
?

**Twey** · 08-02-2005, 11:49 AM

No, that would be an actual popup.
http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/...ow/source.html includes code to do this.

**IanMarlowe** · 08-02-2005, 12:09 PM

whoa it's long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't need anything that "complex" or that "long" I'll just go with
<body>

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
onload()
document.open "alert.html" target="_blank"
</script>

**Twey** · 08-02-2005, 01:15 PM

(shrug)
I suggest you use:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.open("alert.html");
</script>

**IanMarlowe** · 08-02-2005, 01:16 PM

will it auto-open on load?

**Twey** · 08-02-2005, 01:33 PM

Yep. The code is executed exactly as it is, when the browser sees it. You seem to have this thing about document.open. It does not redirect the browser. Also, you must include parentheses around the arguments to a function. This isn't Visual Basic.

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