DHTML Methods

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Displays a Prompt dialog box with a message and an input field.

vTextData = window.prompt ( [ sMessage ] 
   [ , sDefaultValue ] ) 

sMessage	Optional. String specifying the message to display in the dialog box. By default, this parameter is set to "".
sDefaultValue	Optional. String specifying the default value of the input field. By default, this parameter is set to "undefined".

String or Integer. Returns the value typed in by the user.

The title of the prompt dialog box cannot be changed.

The following script will display a simple Prompt dialog box and store the user's input to a variable named what, which can then be used to trigger another function.

<script language="JavaScript">
function promptSearch ( ) {
   what = prompt ( "What will you search for?", 
      "Type text to search here" );
   doSearch ( what );
}
</script>

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