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Marco Roman
5,527 PointsStyling JQuery-Alert Boxes
Does anyone know if there is a tutorial or a snippet video somewhere here on treehouse on customizing the alert box? By default, the Google Chrome styling is ugly. Any info? I'm working on a Ruby app and need to make it look nice with Twitter Bootstrapt and JQuery,
Thanks!
3 Answers
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 PointsDo you mean the browser alert window or a Bootstrap modal? If it's the former, to my knowledge, I don't think the alert window is able to be skinned or modified.
Aimee Knight
9,701 PointsMarco Roman Totally off topic, but I've been Googling Tealeaf, saw your posts, and now see you here! What are your thoughts? I sent an email with questions and am eagerly waiting to hear back!
Marco Roman
5,527 PointsHey Aimee, sorry I haven't had a chance to update it and I just remembered that you asked me about that on the blog. I'll go ahead and update that right now, so check it in a few minutes! We're wrapping up our app and I'll also post my heroku link and git repository so that you can get a feel for the 1st course
Aimee Knight
9,701 PointsIt wasn't me leaving comments but I'll definitely check your update now. Thanks.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsMarco Roman - OK now I'm curious, what's the link to your blog. I'm interested in your experiences with TeaLeaf as well.
Marco Roman
5,527 PointsHere you go James, I'll check out BS modal 2.0, thanks!
Marco Roman
5,527 PointsMarco Roman
5,527 PointsI have an app thats been styled with Bootstrap, so that means that I have to stick with the default Chrome alert styling?
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 PointsSean T. Unwin
28,690 PointsIf your app is using something similar to JavaScript's
alert("Show error message!");and if you are not able to edit the code (although I'm not sure why you wouldn't be able to, unless possibly a mobile app) then yes (again, as far as I am aware).James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 PointsTreehouse has general courses, nothing as specific as using one particular framework.
Bootstrap is just CSS & JavaScript packed up as a "framework" so everything is styleable.
A quick look on github lead me to the Bootstrap LESS files, so take a look at those to see which classes you need to override (or re-write) via LESS (or CSS).
Also you might be interested in this github project for bootstrap modal 2.0