Js customize your own AlertBox (information prompt box)_javascript skills

This article creates a user-defined AlertBox. The effect is as follows:

Insert the following code into the js file:

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// JScript file
// constants to define the title of the alert and button text.
var ALERT_TITLE = "Oops!";
var ALERT_BUTTON_TEXT = "Close";
// over-ride the alert method only if this a newer browser.
// Older browser will see standard alerts
if(document.getElementById) {
window.alert = function(txt) {
createCustomAlert(txt);
}
}
function createCustomAlert(txt) {
// shortcut reference to the document object
d = document;
// if the modalContainer object already exists in the DOM, bail out.
if(d.getElementById("modalContainer")) return;
// create the modalContainer div as a child of the BODY element
mObj = d.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(d.createElement("div"));
mObj.id = "modalContainer";
// make sure its as tall as it needs to be to overlay all the content on the page
mObj.style.height = document.documentElement.scrollHeight "px";
// create the DIV that will be the alert
alertObj = mObj.appendChild(d.createElement("div"));
alertObj.id = "alertBox";
// MSIE doesn't treat position:fixed correctly, so this compensates for positioning the alert
if(d.all && !window.opera) alertObj.style.top = document.documentElement.scrollTop "px";
// center the alert box
alertObj.style.left = (d.documentElement.scrollWidth - alertObj.offsetWidth)/2 "px";
// create an H1 element as the title bar
h1 = alertObj.appendChild(d.createElement("h1"));
h1.appendChild( d.createTextNode(ALERT_TITLE));
// create a paragraph element to contain the txt argument
msg = alertObj.appendChild(d.createElement("p"));
msg.innerHTML = txt;
// create an anchor element to use as the confirmation button.
btn = alertObj.appendChild(d.createElement("a"));
btn.id = "closeBtn";
btn .appendChild(d.createTextNode(ALERT_BUTTON_TEXT));
btn.href = "#";
// set up the onclick event to remove the alert when the anchor is clicked
btn.onclick = function( ) { removeCustomAlert();return false; }
// removes the custom alert from the DOM function removeCustomAlert() {
// document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].removeChild(document.getElementById( "modalContainer"));
}
// removes the custom alert from the DOM
function removeCustomAlert()
{
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].removeChild( document.getElementById("modalContainer"));
}

Paste the following code into the HEAD section of your HTML.

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in your HTML document Insert the following code into the Body section:

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