Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

A description of the problem:
1) Go to a page with various settings and a timeout (forces re-login
if over 10 minutes)
2) Before the timeout, make some changes to settings.
3) Press a "reset to defaults" button that uses a confirmation box to
let the user know what is about to be reset (lists items).
4) Walk away while the confirm box is displayed and come back after
the page timeout.
5) My screen now has the page, a confirm popup on top of that, and a
timeout alert on top of that.
6) Press OK to dismiss the timeout alert. The underlying page goes to
the login screen, but the confirm box remains.

How can I clear any javascript alert/confirm popups in this situation
automatically?

Thanks,
Barry

re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

Anybody?

Thanks.

re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

On 8 Nov 2004 07:42:13 -0800, Tasha's Dad wrote:
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> Anybody?[/color]

Rereading your description made my head spin, as it did the
firt time I read it, how about an URL* instead?
<http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/help_us_help_you.htm>
...advice echoed in my own document..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.jsp>

* An URL paints a thousand words.

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re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

Sorry, I cannot post a URL. Hopefully, the description will provide
the details as it is intended.

Thanks in advance,
Barry

Andrew Thompson <SeeMySites@www.invalid> wrote in message news:<ku4kvybpru8t.1kfa2ux9sj8hb.dlg@40tude.net>.. .[color=blue]
> On 8 Nov 2004 07:42:13 -0800, Tasha's Dad wrote:
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> > Anybody?[/color]
>
> Rereading your description made my head spin, as it did the
> firt time I read it, how about an URL* instead?
> <http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/help_us_help_you.htm>
> ..advice echoed in my own document..
> <http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.jsp>
>
> * An URL paints a thousand words.[/color]

re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

On 8 Nov 2004 11:27:06 -0800, Tasha's Dad wrote:
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> Sorry, I cannot ..[/color]

* cannot?
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>..post a URL.[/color]

So you mean 'cannot', as in, ..
a) "someone will shoot me dead if I do"?
...or, perhaps more, ..
b) "I could not be bothered going to all that effort"?

( And please refrain from top-posting, that hardly encourages
the most helpful people on this group to respond to your problem. )

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re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

In article <7b756057.0411081127.48fbb1ab@posting.google.com >, barry-
news@sripd.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Sorry, I cannot post a URL. Hopefully, the description will provide
> the details as it is intended.
>[/color]

Obviously it didn't or one of us would have answered it by now.
Make a sample and post it to geocities. There is no valid reason for not
having a URL. Only excuses.

You want people to help you, you have to help them help you.

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re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

To simplify the question, if I open a javascript alert with

alert('Hi how are you, thanks for helping.');

I need a way to cancel the alert. How can I kill the alert? Is there
something like javascript.alert.cancel()?
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> Andrew wrote:[/color]

Hi Andrew.
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> So you mean 'cannot', as in, ..
> a) "someone will shoot me dead if I do"?[/color]

Yes, exactly.
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> ..or, perhaps more, ..
> b) "I could not be bothered going to all that effort"?[/color]

Also a little true. This is part of an embedded application. It
requires scripts to execute properly. Geocities last I knew won't
allow you to run perl scripts or executables.

Thanks folks. If I have a chance to strip it down to the bare
minimum, I'll post a link. Hopefully, the simplified question will
help. Usually folks want all the details, so that's how I started.

Barry

re: Need to cancel a javascript alert/confirm box

In article <7b756057.0411090457.6af8ba40@posting.google.com >, barry-
news@sripd.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> To simplify the question, if I open a javascript alert with
>
> alert('Hi how are you, thanks for helping.');
>
> I need a way to cancel the alert. How can I kill the alert? Is there
> something like javascript.alert.cancel()?[/color]

Ah. I see.

Nope, there isn't.

You may want to reconsider using "real" alerts to notify your users if this
is a frequent problem. You can simulate an alert with a floating div and an
onclick handler.
In fact, you have to kill the whole web browser session if you do something
stupid like accidentally put an alert in a non-terminating loop. Not that
I've ever done that while debugging or anything. ;)

Out of curiosity, what's the problem with the user just clicking YES on the
confirm to dismiss it? After all, they walked away...

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