Detect if an alert or confirm is displayed on a page

Question

Is there a way using JavaScript or jQuery to detect if a confirm or alert box is being displayed?

Answer 1

If you want to detect if these are being blocked. You will have to do your own thing with the message you will be dispalying but override the native alert/confirm.

window.nativeAlert = window.alert;
window.alert = function (message) {
var timeBefore = new Date();
var confirmBool = nativeAlert(message);
var timeAfter = new Date();
if ((timeAfter - timeBefore) < 350) {
    MySpecialDialog("You have alerts turned off, turn them back on or die!!!");
  }
}

window.nativeConfirm = window.confirm;
window.confirm = function (message) {
var timeBefore = new Date();
var confirmBool = nativeConfirm(message);
var timeAfter = new Date();
if ((timeAfter - timeBefore) < 350) {
    MySpecialDialog("You have alerts turned off, turn them back on or die!!!");
}
 return confirmBool;
}

Obviously I have set the time to 3.5 milliseconds. But after some testing we were only able to click or close the dialogs in about 5 milliseconds plus