How to prompt the user with an inputbox in Javascript

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Question:

Is there a Javascript function similar to the "InputBox" function in VBScript?

Answer:

Yes, use prompt(Question, Default) as shown below.


	<script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var answer = prompt ("What is your age?","20"); alert ("You are " + answer + " years old.") // --> </script>

Comments:

2007-12-21, 07:28:30

anonymous from Netherlands

bedankt

2009-08-28, 07:12:14

anonymous from Canada

Thanks. Found what I needed

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