21384 2013-03-25 09:15:06 +0000 If this is meant to serve as a tool to make custom alert, confirm and prompts and at the same time server as a replacement for showModalDialog, then there should be an option to halt javascript execut [...] 2013-04-14 06:45:16 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dialog-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 84913 0 contributor 2013-03-25 09:15:06 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/commands.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-dialog-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-dialog-element Comment: If this is meant to serve as a tool to make custom alert, confirm and prompts and at the same time server as a replacement for showModalDialog, then there should be an option to halt javascript execution when showModal is called. Posted from: 84.234.179.60 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.40 Safari/537.31 85279 1 ian 2013-04-01 17:58:56 +0000 Well JS execution still needs to run, since the dialog itself might be interactive. It's more meant to serve as a replacement for <div> used for dialogs, as is common on sites today. 86163 2 ian 2013-04-14 06:45:16 +0000 I don't really know how to provide the feature requested here. If anyone has any suggestions, please reopen this bug. Thanks!