Tanel is an experienced Software Engineer with strong background in variety of technologies. He is extremely passionate about creating high quality software and constantly explores new technologies.
Tanel is an experienced Software Engineer with strong background in variety of technologies. He is extremely passionate about creating high quality software and constantly explores new technologies.
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I need confirmation dialogs, I need them to be dynamic, unobtrusive, custom styled and flexible. Most of the conditions rule out the built-in [cc lang="javascript" inline="true"]confirm()[/cc] function in Javascript. So I decided to build my own with jQuery and share the basic ideas behind the solution.