Getting a value from alert box

Question

I'm having a problem extracting a value from an alert box. Is there a way to get a value from a predefined alert box, and if so, how do I do it?

Answer 1

You should probably consider using prompt instead of alert . JavaScript has 3 types of user dialogs: alert , confirm , and prompt .

Using prompt you can get text input from the user. Have a look at the documentation on Window.prompt .

As an example, consider the various usages in the code below:

 var name = prompt("prompt - Please enter your name") alert("alert - Hello, " + name + "! You can't enter text here!"); var clickedOk = confirm("confirm - Do you understand now?");