What is the Api call for plugins to alert the screen?

[chef 3745]

I noticed when a session has ended in the dashboard and you attempt to "back-page" in your browser, the web client will produce an alert on the screen which says something like:  "Session no longer available" or "Session not found", or something along those lines.

 

What is the Api call in javascript to produce that alert in the middle of the screen?

 

Thanks again,

 

Ben

Edited March 25, 2015 by chef

[ebr 14905]

As luck would have it.... alert().

 

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_alert.asp

 

However, there may be a jquery mobile method you should be using instead (can't remember).  The jquery docs are a good reference.

[chef 3745]

If anyone else comes across this, you can create a "popup" <div> and then call it on a button press.

 

But the button has to be an link , with the "href" pointing to the "popup div"  with a "#", add these data-roles: 'data-transition="pop" data-rel="popup"'

 

the 'popup div" has to have some class types added: ' data-role="popup" '

 

seems to work