Can I do this in HTML?

So I want to create a small popup window - like the error kind - when you click on a link.

Like, you click on a link, and you get the little window and I can have it say "not available at this time" and then they click "OK"

Can I do this in HTML?

Thanks!

 

No. That is not possible in HTML. You will need javascript for that.

 

You can do this easily in javascript...

http://www.w3schools.com/JS/default.asp <- Javascript tutorial - you wanna take a look at the alert() function

 

OK thanks.
I actually found one that I could use for a link here:

http://www.samisite.com/test-csb2nf/id108.htm

The one's you gave I couldn't find to just do a text-link, but it gave me the info I needed to look it up

 

Excellent resource, thanks Mecal.

 

Hello

You can do it in javascript. Its a kind of animation.

Regards
GSolOnline

 

As everyone said you can do this kind of stuff in Javascript and you should also checkout using Lightboxes - they are really effective

Also... if you are going to learn Javascript - learn jQuery - it's a really handy tool

 

thanks a lot Mecal

 

Is this what you're looking for?

<a onClick="alert('not available at this time.');return false;" href="#">link</a>

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I agree with the lightbox suggestion.. very powerful.

There's also a lighter version called the greybox.. again it's very powerful.

 

you use java scrip its batter option

 

I think you can only do this using javascript infact you can add some more features to it if you want to and as u knw html is not so dynamic in its use is slowly slowly fading n new technology is taking its place due to their special features.

 

If you make a page that is "beta" like view this page but expect problems. You can make it like this

<a href="yourlink" onclick="return confirm('This page is in development, are you sure you want to view it?')">title</a>

Code (markup):