jAlert usage

[Pradeep Adibatla]

Hi,I am new to JQuery.

I am just trying to replace javascript

alert("hi");

with

  jAlert( message, [title, callback] )  

1) I added Jquery.js and also jquery.alerts

Now, does

jAlert("hi");

happily replace that?

if you give something like this

jAlert("hi","success");

what does 'success' imply there? and where should it be set to produce that alert?

[Eric Pascarello]

I never used it before, but I am guessing it is appended to the element that pops up as a id. Does this thing have docs in the download file?

Eric

[David Newton]

It defines the type of box (success, info, warning, etc.). What do you mean by "where should it be defined"?

(A third parameter is used to help create the div id.)

[Pradeep Adibatla]

I mean I have alert("hi")..i want to change it to

jAlert("hi,?,?);

how should it be?

[David Newton]

How could I possibly know what alert box type you want and what you want the ID suffix to be?

[Eric Pascarello]

Pradeep Adibatla wrote:I mean I have alert("hi")..i want to change it to

jAlert("hi,?,?);

how should it be?

Does it not have any documentation?

Eric

[David Newton]

Not that I saw, but it's (text, type, id_suffix) as far as I can tell.

[Gregg Bolinger]

jAlert is one of the poorest examples of a jQuery plugin I've seen in a while. The fact that this:

$('body').jAlert('This is a jAlert Success Box with custom width of 780px', 'success', 'widthcustom', 780, '100');

...is how you pass in options, ridiculous. Find something better. There are tons of these things.

[Bear Bibeault]

Gregg Bolinger wrote:jAlert is one of the poorest examples of a jQuery plugin I've seen in a while.

Agree, 100%. It was obviously written by someone who knows next to nothing about jQuery or its conventions.

[Pradeep Adibatla]

Find something better. There are tons of these things.

like? I need make my UI rich because I had completely used normal Javascript which looks really poor in many ways

[Bear Bibeault]

Pradeep Adibatla wrote:like? I need make my UI rich because I had completely used normal Javascript which looks really poor in many ways

Being snippy with people who are trying to help you is not a winning strategy. I'd re-evaluate your approach.

A google search for "jquery alert" yielded 691,000 results. The suggestion is that you find a jQuery alert implementation that was written by someone who understands jQuery a little better, and that has better documentation.

[Gregg Bolinger]

For most usages I simply use jQuery UI's Dialog. Depending on your needs, there are a lot of different options. As Bear noted, a simple google search returns a bunch of results.