MooDialog

MooDialog is a MooTools plugin to replace the native alert(), confirm() and promt() javascript functions by more stylish ones. You can use it also for other DOM elements, create an IFrame dialog or even create an Ajax Dialog

How to use

First you have to include the javascript files and css file in the head of your html document

#HTML
<link  href="../Source/css/MooDialog.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="../Source/Overlay.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

And whether functionality you want you use, you have to include, for example, the following files

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Alert.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Request.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Class: MooDialog.Alert

Create a alert dialog, a replacement for alert()

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Alert.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript

#JS
new MooDialog.Alert(message[,options]);

// example
new MooDialog.Alert('Hi there!');

Class: MooDialog.Confirm

Create a confirm dialog, a replacement for confirm()

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Confirm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript

#JS
new MooDialog.Confirm(message[,fn1,fn2,options]);

// Examaple
new MooDialog.Confirm('Are you sure you want to do this?',function(){
	new MooDialog.Alert('You are!')
},function(){
	new MooDialog.Alert('You are not');
});

Element.confirmLinkClick

Create a confirm dialog if the user really want to follow this link

#JS
$('confirmDelete').confirmLinkClick('Are you sure you want to click this link');

Element.confirmFormSubmit

Create a confirm dialog if the user try to submit a form

#JS
document.getElement('form#myForm').confirmFormSubmit('Do you want to submit this form');'

Class: MooDialog.Prompt

Create an prompt dialog, replacement for prompt()

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Prompt.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript

#JS
new MooDialog.Prompt(message[,fn,options]);

// Example
new MooDialog.Prompt('What is your name?',function(ret){
	new MooDialog.Alert('Your name is '+ ret);
});

Class: MooDialog.Error

Create an error message

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Error.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript

#JS
new MooDialog.Error(message);

// Example
new MooDialog.Error('O No, What have you done!?');

Element.MooDialog

Create a dialog from an element

#JS
new Element('div',{text: 'This is a custom element'}).MooDialog();

// Or an existing element from the DOM
$('el').MooDialog();

Class: MooDialog.Iframe

Create a dialog with an IFrame

#JS
new MooDialog.Iframe(url[,options]);

// Example
new MooDialog.Iframe('http://www.mootools.net');

Class: MooDialog.Request

Get the dialog content by a Ajax Request

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Request.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript

#JS
new MooDialog.Request(url[,RequestOptions,options]);

// Example
new MooDialog.Request('exampleText.html');

Class: MooDialog.Iframe

Get an IFrame within the dialog

#HTML
<script src="../Source/MooDialog.Iframe.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Javascript

#JS
new MooDialog.Iframe(url[,options]);

// Example
new MooDialog.Iframe('http://www.mootools.net');

Options

In every last parameter you can set the following options.

#JS
{
	size: {
		width: 300,
		height: 100
	},
	offset: {
		x: 0,
		y: -100
	},
	title: null,
	scroll: true,
	useEscKey: true,
	disposeOnClose: true,
	closeButton: true,
	closeOnOverlayClick: true,
	useScrollBar: true,
	fx: {
		type: 'tween',
		open: 1,
		close: 0,
		options: {
			property: 'opacity',
			duration: 400
		}
	},
	focus: true, // Only MooDialog.Alert, MooDialog.Confirm,MooDialog.Error and MooDialog.Prompt
	okText: 'Ok', // Only MooDialog.Alert, MooDialog.Confirm,MooDialog.Error and MooDialog.Prompt
	cancelText: 'Cancel' // Only MooDialog.Confirm /*,
	onOpen: $empty,
	onClose: $empty,
	onShow: $empty,
	onHide: $empty*/
}

1. size: (object) The size of the dialog
2. offset: (object) Offset of the box
3. scroll: (boolean) Use position: fixed css property (there's some code commented for IE6 because it doesn't support position: fixed)
4. useEscKey: (boolean) Use the esc key to close the dialog
5. disposeOnClose: (boolean) Fire the MooDialog.dispose() method after closing the dialog to dispose the dialog from the DOM
6. closeButton: (boolean) Should it diplay a close button
7. closeOnOverlayClick: (boolean, default true) Should the dialog close when there is clicked on the Overlay
8. useScrollBar: (boolean, default true) Should it display scrollbars when the content is to big for the dialog
9. focus: (boolean) Shoud the buttons for MooDialog.Alert, Moodialog.Confirm, MooDialog.Error and MooDialog.Promt be focussed
10. fx: (object) Here you can set a object to modify the open and close effect
    1. type: (string) The type of fx, tween or morph
    2. open: (mixed) Anything you normally put into Fx.Tween.start() or Fx.Morph.start() to open the dialog
    3. close: (mixed) Anything you normally put into Fx.Tween.start() or Fx.Morph.start() to close the dialog
    4. options: (object) The Fx options object
11. okText: (string) Only if the dialog has an ok button, you can set its text here
12. cancelText: (string) Only if the dialog has an cancel button, you can set its text here

Events

1. open: When the dialog gets opend
2. show: When the dialog is totally opened
3. close: When the dialog gets closed
4. hide: When the dialog is totally hidden

Class: MooDialog

Syntax

#JS
var dialog = new MooDialog([options]);

Arguments

1. options: (object) See the options section.

Methods

setContent

With this method you can set the content of the dialog.

Syntax

#JS
dialog.setContent(content);

Arguments

1. content: (string,element,number) Put some content into the dialog

Return

• MooDialog instance

setPosition

Set the position of the dialog

Syntax

#JS
dialog.setPosition(x,y);

Arguments

1. x: (number) The number of pixels from the left of the screen (exlusive the offset, see options)
2. y: (number) The number of pixels from the top of the screen (exlusive the offset, see options)

open

With this method you open the dialog

#JS
dialog.open();

close

With this method you close the dialog

#JS
dialog.close();

dispose

Removes the dialog from the DOM

#JS
dialog.dispose();

toElement

This method returns the dialog wrapper element

Syntax

#JS
var myDialog = new MooDialog();
$(myDialog);

Requirements

• MooTools Core 1.2.4
• Overlay