Alert long message

Question

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 recommended.

Answer 1

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.com/dialog/

Answer 2

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.