Can we change the title of alert box displayed through Javascript?

geevaa

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Apr 24, 2008, 10:26:30 AM4/24/08

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Hi All,

Using javascript i am displaying an alert...
Is there is a way to change the title of the alert box displayed
through Javascript

Here is my simple javascript code
<script type = "text/javascript">
alert('Hi All !!!')
</script>

When I run the above code I can see an alert box with the content "Hi
All" ...
But the title of the alert box displayed in firefox is "The page at
http://localhost says"...

Is there is a way to change this text to my own coustomized text..?

Is there is any thing a client side programmer had got to do with this
title text..?

Is there is a way to change the cursor pointer to cursor hand when the
user moves his pointer on the ok button on the alert box ..?

Thanks in advance..

Jeremy J Starcher

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Apr 24, 2008, 2:27:24 PM4/24/08

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:26:30 -0700, geevaa wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Using javascript i am displaying an alert...
> Is there is a way to change the title of the alert box displayed through
> Javascript
>
> Here is my simple javascript code
> <script type = "text/javascript">
> alert('Hi All !!!')
> </script>
>
> When I run the above code I can see an alert box with the content "Hi
> All" ...
> But the title of the alert box displayed in firefox is "The page at
> http://localhost says"...
>
>
> Is there is a way to change this text to my own coustomized text..?

No UA that I know of would allow that to be changed. It is an important
part of the JavaScript security model.

>
> Is there is any thing a client side programmer had got to do with this
> title text..?

Again no.

>
> Is there is a way to change the cursor pointer to cursor hand when the
> user moves his pointer on the ok button on the alert box ..?

The alert box is not a Javascript function, it is provided by the hosting
user agent. The hosting UA doesn't even have to display an 'OK' button
and may, in fact, provide others. (IIRC, Opera offers a 'Stop running
all javascript on this page' type option as well.)

>
> Thanks in advance..

geevaa

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Apr 25, 2008, 7:29:59 AM4/25/08

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Thanks for Your help Jeremy J Starcher.

On Apr 24, 11:27 pm, Jeremy J Starcher <r3...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:26:30 -0700, geevaa wrote:
> > Hi All,
>
> > Using javascript i am displaying an alert...
> > Is there is a way to change the title of the alert box displayed through
> > Javascript
>
> > Here is my simple javascript code
> > <script type = "text/javascript">
> > alert('Hi All !!!')
> > </script>
>
> > When I run the above code I can see an alert box with the content "Hi
> > All" ...
> > But the title of the alert box displayed in firefox is "The page at

> >http://localhostsays"...

Captain Paralytic

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Apr 25, 2008, 7:56:25 AM4/25/08

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On 24 Apr, 14:26, geevaa <govivasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Using javascript i am displaying an alert...
> Is there is a way to change the title of the alert box displayed
> through Javascript
>
> Here is my simple javascript code
> <script type = "text/javascript">
> alert('Hi All !!!')
> </script>
>
> When I run the above code I can see an alert box with the content "Hi
> All" ...

> But the title of the alert box displayed in firefox is "The page athttp://localhostsays"...

>
> Is there is a way to change this text to my own coustomized text..?
>
> Is there is any thing a client side programmer had got to do with this
> title text..?
>
> Is there is a way to change the cursor pointer to cursor hand when the
> user moves his pointer on the ok button on the alert box ..?
>
> Thanks in advance..

Use a popup DIV instead. You can make it say anything you like then.
e.g.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/abox2.htm