Question

I want to write something that acts just like confirm() in javascript, but I want to write it myself so I can skin the dialog box. In having trouble thinking through how I would basically force the javascript thread to wait until the user responds and then return true or false.

Answer 1

If I were you, I would look at one of the popular javascript libraries. Most contain some sort of modal dialog.

A couple I found for JQuery are jqModal and SimpleModal.

When you build the modal dialog, you will have to tie events to the buttons, so you would do something like:

function askUserYesOrNo() {   var myDialog = $('<div class='mydialog'><p>Yes or No?</p><input type='button' id='yes' value='Yes'/><input type='button' id='no' value='No'/></div>');   $('#yes').click(handleYes);   $('#no').click(handleNo);   myDialog.modal(); //This would have to be replaced by whatever syntax the modal framework uses }  function handleYes() {   //handle yes... }  function handleNo() {   //handle no... }