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Example
See Listing 16-4 (for the window.closed property), which provides an elaborate,
cross-platform, bug-accommodating example of applying the window.close()
method across multiple windows.
confirm(“message”)
windowObject.confirm()
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Example
The example in Listing 16-23 shows the user interface part of how you can use a
confirm dialog box to query a user before clearing a table full of user-entered data.
The line in the title bar, as shown in Figure 2-7, or the “JavaScript Confirm” legend in
earlier browser versions, cannot be removed from the dialog box.
Listing 16-23: The Confirm Dialog Box
window.confirm() Method
function clearTable() {
if (confirm(“Are you sure you want to empty the table?”)) {
alert(“Emptying the table...”) // for demo purposes
//statements that actually empty the fields
}
}
Figure 2-7: A JavaScript confirm
dialog box (IE5/Windows format)