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June 13, 2000 Modal Windows in Netscape  Tips: June 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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JavaScript features several built-in dialog boxes: window.alert(), window.confirm(), and window.prompt(). When a dialog box pops up, the user cannot focus on the original page until the box is terminated. In other words, a dialog box is always focused. Internet Explorer supports a few methods that enable you to apply this feature to any new window:
You can achieve a similar effect in Navigator by specifying the onBlur event handler:
If you use the above event handler in the
For more on modal windows, go to Working with Windows - Dialog Boxes.
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