How to create TRULY modal alerts/confirms in Javascript?

Question

I am sifting through prompt() and confirm() replacements for JavaScript. I need to create a couple of confirm()s and alert()s that have three or more o

Answer 1

Both IE and Firefox 3 have a showModalDialog method which would allow you to display an entire web page modally. However for a truely cross-browser solution you can't use that.

Many of the popular frameworks provide a mechanism to do it by displaying a HTML element and disabling access to the rest of the web page whilst the element is displayed.