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vex

Take control of your dialogs

vex is a modern dialog library which is highly configurable, easily stylable, and gets out of the way. You'll love vex because it's tiny (5.5kb minified and gzipped), has a clear and simple API, works on mobile devices, and can be customized to match your style in seconds.

Features

• Drop-in replacement for alert, confirm, and prompt
• Easily configurable animations which are smooth as butter
• Lightweight with no external dependencies
• Looks and behaves great on mobile devices
• Open multiple dialogs at once and close them individually or all at once
• UMD support

Requirements

• None!

Browser Support

vex will run in any ES5-compatible environment, and includes polyfills for classList and Object.assign.

This means the following browsers are compatible with vex:

• IE 9+
• Edge 13+
• Firefox 21+
• Chrome 23+
• Safari 6+
• Opera 15+

Including in your project

For the most common usage of vex, you'll want to include vex, vex-dialog, the vex CSS file, and a theme file.

For HTML includes:

<script src="vex.combined.min.js"></script>
<script>vex.defaultOptions.className = 'vex-theme-os'</script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="vex.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="vex-theme-os.css" />

For browserify/webpack, you'll still need to include the stylesheets on your page, but you can setup vex in your scripts:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="vex.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="vex-theme-os.css" />

var vex = require('vex-js')
vex.registerPlugin(require('vex-dialog'))
vex.defaultOptions.className = 'vex-theme-os'

That will give you all of the APIs for both vex and vex-dialog, and set you up with the "Operating System" theme. If you'd prefer another theme, check out Themes.

The vex.combined.min.js file includes:

• vex.dialog.js which adds the functionality that mimics the native browser alert, confirm, and prompt (everything you see in the Basic docs examples).
• vex.js which is a lightweight barebones generic dialog wrapper. See the Advanced usage docs for more information.

Module Systems

Note that when using a JavaScript module system like RequireJS or CommonJS, especially as part of a build system like Browserify or Webpack, you will not be able to use the vex.combined.min.js file. Instead, require vex and register the vex-dialog plugin.

Confirm Demo

One of the simplest ways to use vex is to call vex.dialog.alert, vex.dialog.confirm, or vex.dialog.prompt. In this demo, we're using vex.dialog.confirm to ask the user to confirm the answer to a simple question.

Destroy the planet

<script> $('.demo-confirm').click(function(){ vex.dialog.confirm({ message: 'Are you absolutely sure you want to destroy the alien planet?', callback: function(value) { $('.demo-result-confirm').show().html('

Result

' + (value ? 'Successfully destroyed the planet.' : 'Chicken.') + '

'); } }); }); </script>

Play with this demo:

vex.dialog.confirm({
    message: 'Are you absolutely sure you want to destroy the alien planet?',
    callback: function (value) {
        if (value) {
            console.log('Successfully destroyed the planet.')
        } else {
            console.log('Chicken.')
        }
    }
})

Login Demo

Here's a more complex demo in which we use vex.dialog.open (a more generic method that alert, confirm, and prompt all call internally) to build a login dialog.

Log in

<script> $('.demo-login').click(function(){ vex.dialog.open({ message: 'Enter your username and password:', input: '' + '' + '' + '', buttons: [ $.extend({}, vex.dialog.buttons.YES, { text: 'Login' }), $.extend({}, vex.dialog.buttons.NO, { text: 'Back' }) ], callback: function (data) { $('.demo-result-login').show().html('' + '

Result

' + '

' + 'Username: ' + data.username + '
' + 'Password: ' + data.password + '' + '

' + '') } }); }); </script>

Play with this example:

vex.dialog.open({
    message: 'Enter your username and password:',
    input: [
        '<input name="username" type="text" placeholder="Username" required />',
        '<input name="password" type="password" placeholder="Password" required />'
    ].join(''),
    buttons: [
        $.extend({}, vex.dialog.buttons.YES, { text: 'Login' }),
        $.extend({}, vex.dialog.buttons.NO, { text: 'Back' })
    ],
    callback: function (data) {
        if (!data) {
            console.log('Cancelled')
        } else {
            console.log('Username', data.username, 'Password', data.password)
        }
    }
})

Learn More

To learn more about how to use vex, visit our API pages.

• Basic
• Themes
• Advanced

Credits

vex was built by Adam Schwartz

<script src="/vex/dist/js/vex.combined.js"></script> <script> (function(){ vex.defaultOptions.className = 'vex-theme-os'; })(); </script>