I need to display this message to the user where the user can click 'Yes' or 'No'. If the user doesn't respond in 2 minutes, the window needs to closed. Opening a new page is one way. My question is, is it possible to do this with a confirm box? Can a confirm box be automatically closed after 2 minutes?
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1check this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/463368/javascript-close-alert-box – Carl Winder May 02 '12 at 15:26
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You cannot do that with the native confirm() as it blocks JavaScript execution on that page until the user has "answered" but there are lots of HTML/JavaScript-based inplementations out there where you could easily add such behaviour.
And they often look better, too. :)
Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/972832/298479 for an example. To create the timeout, you'd simply window.setTimeout(function() { $('#dialog').dialog('close'); }, 120000); when opening the dialog.
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For clarification, native dialog boxes suspend run time on the line the dialog was invoked. – Matt Lo May 02 '12 at 15:27
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Alert and Confirm boxes cannot be scripted to close. Use a modal dialog instead. This usually consists of an absolutely-positioned DIV and a translucent overlay that covers the whole page.
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