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5 Easy Tips to Customize Browser Alert Popups
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Can you imagine your mobile phone without notifications? Notifications help you navigate the different apps on your device by giving you bits and pieces of what’s going on in those apps, and you can decide what’s important enough to pay attention to.
There are three types of JavaScript popup boxes: the alert box, confirm box, and prompt box. This article will focus on the alert box.
The alert box’s main aim is to get the user’s information. The alert box usually requires the user’s OK or Dismiss input to proceed. Keep reading to learn more about browser popup alerts.
What is a browser alert?
A browser alert describes a notification sent by a website or web application. Users can receive browser alerts from websites they have subscribed to even when they’re not on the website or actively using their browser.
Before the development of mobile and computer applications, browsers were the only access to the internet, but even then, there were no notifications. The Google Chrome version 42 update marked the turning point in browser evolution.
Browser notifications perform the same functions as mobile app notifications. However, the notifications used in browsers are known as browser alert popups or JavaScript popup boxes.
What does JavaScript alert mean?
A JavaScript alert is a message window for users. It could vary from notifying the user of an error to other messages like a new update.
The JavaScript alerts function instructs the browser to send a modal dialog that carries a message and anOKbutton.
How do I manage browser alert popups in JavaScript?
1. Use Selenium webdriver
There are four main browser alerts categories: simple, prompt, confirm, and authentication. To handle these alerts, you can use the steps above.
2. Close browser alert in JavaScript
There are two methods for closing browser alerts in JavaScript and they are:
let notification = new Notification(title, options);// do some work, then close the notificationnotification.close()
let notification = new Notification(title, options);setTimeout(() => {notification.close()}, 4000);
3. Customize a JavaScript alert box with CSS
You can customize a JavaScript alert box with CSS. Using the CSS top and left properties to customize the position of the alert box.
This is what an alert box code would look like:
W3 Schools has a verynice tutorialon how to create JavaScript alerts with CSS and that might help you a lot.
4. How to set browser alerts
JavaScript uses the alert () method to display alert boxes. The alert box pops up with a specific message and anOKbutton, which is used to ensure that the user gets the message. For instance, let us look at the code below for a simple JavaScript alert:
This code will give the following output:
Welcome to JavaScript
Alert in JavaScript
To display the alert message, click on theshow alert messagebutton
Once you double-click the button, the following message will be displayed:
This page says
This is the alert message
OK
5. Enable the Edge browser JavaScript alert
Browser alerts have revolutionized the browser experience by allowing users to keep track of their activities as they would with mobile applications.
You can receive prompts, confirm an action, or just be reminded of certain activities on a website even when you’re not actively on the site or using your browser.
I hope this article’s information has made navigating your browser alert popup easier.
You might want to look at our list of thebest browsers to customize your address barand see if you want to replace the existing one.
In the meantime, if you have any suggestions or questions, don’t hesitate to use our comments section below to let us know about them.
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Vladimir Popescu
Being an artist his entire life while also playing handball at a professional level, Vladimir has also developed a passion for all things computer-related.
With an innate fascination for research and analysis, and realizing many other people share his passion for this subject, he delved into writing Windows-related articles, so other people can also benefit from the acquired information.
When not writing kick-ass articles, Vladimir likes to spend his time doing Crossfit and creating art.
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