notification.confirm

Displays a customizable confirmation dialog box.

navigator.notification.confirm(message, confirmCallback, [title], [buttonLabels])
  • message: Dialog message. (String)

  • confirmCallback: Callback to invoke with index of button pressed (1, 2, or 3) or when the dialog is dismissed without a button press (0). (Function)

  • title: Dialog title. (String) (Optional, defaults to Confirm)

  • buttonLabels: Array of strings specifying button labels. (Array) (Optional, defaults to [OK,Cancel])

Description

The notification.confirm method displays a native dialog box that is more customizable than the browser's confirm function.

confirmCallback

The confirmCallback executes when the user presses one of the buttons in the confirmation dialog box.

The callback takes the argument buttonIndex (Number), which is the index of the pressed button. Note that the index uses one-based indexing, so the value is 1, 2, 3, etc.

Supported Platforms

  • Android
  • BlackBerry WebWorks (OS 5.0 and higher)
  • iOS
  • Tizen
  • Windows Phone 7 and 8
  • Windows 8

Quick Example

// process the confirmation dialog result
function onConfirm(buttonIndex) {
    alert('You selected button ' + buttonIndex);
}

// Show a custom confirmation dialog
//
function showConfirm() {
    navigator.notification.confirm(
        'You are the winner!', // message
         onConfirm,            // callback to invoke with index of button pressed
        'Game Over',           // title
        ['Restart','Exit']         // buttonLabels
    );
}

Full Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Notification Example</title>

    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

    // Wait for device API libraries to load
    //
    document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

    // device APIs are available
    //
    function onDeviceReady() {
        // Empty
    }

    // process the confirmation dialog result
    function onConfirm(buttonIndex) {
        alert('You selected button ' + buttonIndex);
    }

    // Show a custom confirmation dialog
    //
    function showConfirm() {
        navigator.notification.confirm(
            'You are the winner!', // message
             onConfirm,            // callback to invoke with index of button pressed
            'Game Over',           // title
            ['Restart','Exit']         // buttonLabels
        );
    }

    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p><a href="#" onclick="showConfirm(); return false;">Show Confirm</a></p>
  </body>
</html>

Windows Phone 7 and 8 Quirks

  • There is no built-in browser function for window.confirm, but you can bind it by assigning:

      window.confirm = navigator.notification.confirm;
    
  • Calls to alert and confirm are non-blocking, so the result is only available asynchronously.