Window.confirm()

The Window.confirm() method displays a modal dialog with an optional message and two buttons: OK and Cancel.

Syntax

result = window.confirm(message);

• message is an optional string to display in the dialog.
• result is a boolean indicating whether OK (true) or Cancel (false) was selected. If a browser is ignoring in-page dialogs, then result is always false.

Example

if (window.confirm("Do you really want to leave?")) { 
  window.open("exit.html", "Thanks for Visiting!");
}

Produces:

Notes

The following text is shared between this article, DOM:window.prompt and DOM:window.alert Dialog boxes are modal windows — they prevent the user from accessing the rest of the program's interface until the dialog box is closed. For this reason, you should not overuse any function that creates a dialog box (or modal window). Regardless, there are good reasons to avoid using dialog boxes for confirmation.

Starting with Chrome 46.0 this method is blocked inside an <iframe> unless the frame's sandbox attribute contains allow-modal.

Specification

Browser compatibility

See also

• alert
• prompt