jQuery UI Alert Dialog as a replacement for alert()

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mauzilla picture mauzilla · Nov 10, 2011 · Viewed 99.7k times · Source

I'm using alert() to output my validation errors back to the user as my design does not make provision for anything else, but I would rather use jQuery UI dialog as the alert dialog box for my message.

Since errors are not contained in a (html) div, I am not sure how to go about doing this. Normally you would assign the dialog() to a div say $("#divName").dialog() but I more need a js function something like alert_dialog("Custom message here") or something similiar.

Any ideas?

Answer

Clive picture Clive · Nov 10, 2011

I don't think you even need to attach it to the DOM, this seems to work for me:

$("<div>Test message</div>").dialog();

Here's a JS fiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/TpTNL/98

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