Change the asynchronous jQuery Dialog to be synchronous?

Question

Currently, I\'m working to replace \"alert\'/\"confirm\" with the jquery dialog.

But most of legacy codes is written in some asynchronous way, which make it

Answer 1

To answer David Whiteman's more specific question, here's how I'm implementing a "deferred" postback for a LinkButton Click event. Basically, I'm just preventing the default behaviour and firing the postback manually when user feedback is available.

function MyClientClickHandler(event, confirmationMessage, yesText, noText) {
    // My LinkButtons are created dynamically, so I compute the caller's ID
    var elementName = event.srcElement.id.replace(/_/g, '$');
    // I don't want the event to be fired immediately because I want to add a parameter based on user's input
    event.preventDefault();
    $('<p>' + confirmationMessage + '</p>').dialog({
        buttons: [
        {
            text: yesText,
            click: function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
                // Now I'm ready to fire the postback
                __doPostBack(elementName, 'Y');
            }
        },
        {
            text: noText,
            click: function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
                // In my case, I need a postback when the user presses "no" as well
                __doPostBack(elementName, 'N');
            }
        }
        ]
    });
}