Is there a way to set the height of alert to display really long messages with enabling scrolling option for messages that extends screen height ?

Help would be appreciated , all plugins are not remended.

Is there a way to set the height of alert to display really long messages with enabling scrolling option for messages that extends screen height ?

Help would be appreciated , all plugins are not remended.

• javascript
• jquery
• html

• 1 Are you asking about a JavaScript alert box? – user1781710 Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 17:44
• 1 You, as a web developer, have precisely 0 (North, Nada, ...) control over the visual aspect of a javascript alert message. That's the precise reason why people wrote javascript plugins to mimick it and allow the desired level of control and UI appearance. Unfortunately you explicitly stated that you don't want to use any plugins, so I am afraid you will have to live with what the alert gives you. – Darin Dimitrov Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 17:45
• 1 Not possible... jQuery dialog would be your best bet! – malkassem Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 17:45
• 1 @ProllyGeek A simple google search: An exact copy or reproduction, as of a document. – h2ooooooo Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 17:46
• 5 @ProllyGeek No, jQuery dialog is not the only solution. You can also choose to reinvent the wheel and make it from scratch or use one of the 10000 JS/CSS libraries that have made a method that can do this, but you cannot do it with the native alert() dialog. – h2ooooooo Commented Dec 27, 2013 at 17:47

3 Answers 3

You can't control a JavaScript alert box in anyway.

Modern web development uses a modal dialog box to show this type of information.

jQuery UI dialog() is one such popular option. See here: http://jqueryui./dialog/

alert() only takes a message and cannot be configured in any way.

I know of no browsers that implement scrolling in the resulting dialog box. Firefox and IE just pop up a modal Windows MessageBox in the OS theme's default dialog font, where Chrome has a little piece of toast that pops up towards the top of the browser window.

You would have to use a floating div to make a sort of fake "dialog box" with the features you want. For example, jQuery dialog, or the excellent alertify.

Not possible.

Jquery will be best for your criteria

Jquery Dialog Link