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This element should be used in place of the window element for dialog boxes. The buttons attribute may be used to set which buttons should appear in the dialog box. These buttons will be placed in the correct locations for the user's platform.

More information is available in the XUL tutorial and Dialogs and prompts (code snippets).

Attributes: buttonaccesskeyaccept, buttonaccesskeycancel, buttonaccesskeydisclosure, buttonaccesskeyextra1, buttonaccesskeyextra2, buttonaccesskeyhelp, buttonalign, buttondir, buttondisabledaccept, buttonlabelaccept, buttonlabelcancel, buttonlabeldisclosure, buttonlabelextra1, buttonlabelextra2, buttonlabelhelp, buttonorient, buttonpack, buttons, defaultButton, ondialogaccept, ondialogcancel, ondialogdisclosure, ondialogextra1, ondialogextra2, ondialoghelp, title

Properties: buttons, defaultButton

Methods: acceptDialog, cancelDialog, centerWindowOnScreen, getButton, moveToAlertPosition

Examples

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/global.css" type="text/css"?>
<dialog id="donothing" title="Dialog example"
  xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
  buttons="accept,cancel"
  buttonlabelcancel="Cancel"
  buttonlabelaccept="Save"
  ondialogaccept="return doOK();"
  ondialogcancel="return doCancel();">
  <dialogheader title="Options" description="My preferences"/>
  <groupbox>
    <caption label="Colour"/>
    <radiogroup>
      <radio label="Red"/>
      <radio label="Green" selected="true"/>
      <radio label="Blue"/>
    </radiogroup>
    <label value="Nickname"/>
    <textbox/>
  </groupbox>
</dialog>

Attributes

activetitlebarcolor: Type: color string; Specify background color of the window's titlebar when it is active (foreground). Moreover this hides separator between titlebar and window contents. This only affects Mac OS X.

buttonaccesskeyaccept: Type: string; The access key to use for the "accept" button.

buttonaccesskeycancel: Type: string; The access key to use for the "cancel" button.

buttonaccesskeydisclosure: Type: string; The access key to use for the "disclosure" button.

buttonaccesskeyextra1: Type: string; The access key to use for the first extra button.

buttonaccesskeyextra2: Type: string; The access key to use for the second extra button.

buttonaccesskeyhelp: Type: string; The access key to use for the "help" button.

buttonalign: Type: string; The value of the align attribute for the box containing the buttons.

buttondir: Type: string; The value of the dir attribute for the box containing the buttons.

buttondisabledaccept: Type: boolean; If true, the accept button is disabled.

buttonlabelaccept: Type: string; The label to appear on the "accept" button.

buttonlabelcancel: Type: string; The label to appear on the "cancel" button.

buttonlabeldisclosure: Type: string; The label to appear on the "disclosure" button.

buttonlabelextra1: Type: string; The label to appear on the first extra button.

buttonlabelextra2: Type: string; The label to appear on the second extra button.

buttonlabelhelp: Type: string; The label to appear on the "help" button.

buttonorient: Type: string; The value of the orient attribute for the box containing the buttons.

buttonpack: Type: string; The value of the pack attribute for the box containing the buttons.

buttons

Type: comma-separated list of the values below

A comma-separated list of buttons to appear in the dialog box. The buttons will be placed in suitable locations for the user's platform and basic event handling will be performed automatically. The following values can be used in the list:

accept: The OK button, which will accept the changes when pressed. This button will also be the default button.
cancel: The cancel button which will cancel the operation.
help: A help button for displaying help about the dialog.
disclosure: A button to show more information. This might be a button or a disclosure triangle.
extra1: An optional additional button. You can set its label with the buttonlabelextra1 attribute and its command with the ondialogextra1 attribute.
extra2: A second optional additional button. You can set its label with the buttonlabelextra2 attribute and its command with the ondialogextra2 attribute.

Note: If you don't want to display any buttons in the dialog box, set the value of this attribute to "," (a single comma).

defaultButton: Type: string; Normally this attribute should not be set, but if it is, it specifies the default button in the dialog. Typically, this means that the button will be activated when the Enter key is pressed. This should be set to one of the same values as those for the buttons attribute.

inactivetitlebarcolor: Type: color string; Specify background color of the window's titlebar when it is inactive (background). Moreover this hides separator between titlebar and window contents. This affects only on Mac OS X.

ondialogaccept: Type: script code; The code in this attribute is called when the accept button is pressed, or when the acceptDialog method is called. If the handler returns true, the dialog will indeed go away, but if it returns false it will not.

ondialogcancel: Type: script code; The code in this attribute is called when the "cancel" button is pressed or when the cancelDialog method is called. If the routine returns true, the dialog will indeed go away, but if it returns false it will not.

ondialogdisclosure: Type: script code; The code in this attribute is called when the "disclosure" button is pressed.

ondialogextra1: Type: script code; The code in this attribute is called when the first extra button is pressed.

ondialogextra2: Type: script code; The code in this attribute is called when the second extra button is pressed.

ondialoghelp: Type: script code; The code in this attribute is called when the "help" button is pressed.

title: Type: string; The text to appear in the title bar of the window.

Properties

buttons

Type: comma-separated list of the values below

A comma-separated list of buttons to appear on the dialog box. The buttons will be placed in suitable locations for the user's platform and basic event handling will be performed automatically. The following values can be used in the list:

accept: The OK button, which will accept the changes when pressed. This button will also be the default button.
cancel: The cancel button which will cancel the operation.
help: A help button for displaying help about the dialog.
disclosure: A button to show more information. This might be a button or a disclosure triangle.
extra1: An optional additional button. You can set its label with the buttonlabelextra1 attribute and its command with the ondialogextra1 attribute.
extra2: A second optional additional button. You can set its label with the buttonlabelextra2 attribute and its command with the ondialogextra2 attribute.

defaultButton: Type: string; Normally this attribute should not be set, but if it is, it specifies the default button in the dialog. Typically, this means that the button will be activated when the Enter key is pressed. This should be set to one of the same values as those for the buttons attribute.

Methods

Inherited Methods
addEventListener(), appendChild(), blur, click, cloneNode(), compareDocumentPosition, dispatchEvent(), doCommand, focus, getAttribute(), getAttributeNode(), getAttributeNodeNS(), getAttributeNS(), getBoundingClientRect(), getClientRects(), getElementsByAttribute, getElementsByAttributeNS, getElementsByClassName(), getElementsByTagName(), getElementsByTagNameNS(), getFeature(), getUserData, hasAttribute(), hasAttributeNS(), hasAttributes(), hasChildNodes(), insertBefore(), isDefaultNamespace(), isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported(), lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize(), querySelector(), querySelectorAll(), removeAttribute(), removeAttributeNode(), removeAttributeNS(), removeChild(), removeEventListener(), replaceChild(), setAttribute(), setAttributeNode(), setAttributeNodeNS(), setAttributeNS(), setUserData

acceptDialog(): Return type: no return value; Accepts the dialog and closes it, similar to pressing the OK button.

cancelDialog(): Return type: no return value; Cancels the dialog and closes it, similar to pressing the Cancel button.

centerWindowOnScreen(): Return type: no return value; Centers the dialog on the screen.

getButton( type ): Return type: button element; Returns the button element in the dialog corresponding to the given type.

moveToAlertPosition(): Return type: no return value; Moves and resizes the dialog to a position and size suitable for an alert box.

Elements: dialogheader

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