10 Best Dialog Plugins To Replace The Native JS Popup Boxes (2024 Update)

While the basic alert, confirm, and prompt functions on the browser are handy for quick interactive design, sometimes you need to present more detailed information for your users.

Even though the native JavaScript popups are quite helpful, they also have their fair share of drawbacks. They are often less flexible, don’t look good and require additional code for customization and not to mention that they show in the browser real estate. That’s where JavaScript dialog boxes come to life.

There are various types of dialog boxes that help in showing an important message or presenting an option or answer to a question asked by the user. These types of plugins make it easy for designers to modify and change the text, icons and color schemes within the popup box layout. This allows more control over the layout and design compared to using default popups. In combination with CSS styles, these plugins can have a wide range of appearance options.

Looking to have a custom dialog plugin to replace the native browser JavaScript popup boxes?

Here are the 10 best and top-downloaded jQuery and Pure JavaScript dialog popup plugins to help web developers create pretty, customizable Alert boxes, Confirm boxes, and Prompt boxes on the web app. Have fun!

Originally Published May 17 2019, updated Jan 29 2024

Table of contents:

• jQuery Dialog Plugins
• Vanilla JavaScript Dialog Plugins

jQuery Dialog Plugins:

Create Dynamic Bootstrap 5/4 Modals In jQuery - bootstrap-show-modal.js

Yet another Bootstrap 4 modal wrapper plugin which lets you create beautiful, responsive, dynamic alert/confirm dialog boxes and complex modal windows using Bootstrap 5 or Bootstrap 4 modal component.

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Create Custom Alert/Confirm/Modal Popups With jQuery UI - Dialogs Manager

A jQuery & jQuery UI Position based dialog manager to help you create custom alert popups, confirmation dialogs and modal windows on the webpage.

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Custom Modal Dialog Plugin - cxDialog

A simple lightweight yet highly customizable JavaScript plugin used to create modal style dialog popups for alert, confirm and prompt boxes.

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Powerful jQuery Dialog Box Plugin - Zebra_Dialog

A small (4KB minified), compact (one JS file, no dependencies other than jQuery 1.5.2+) and highly configurable dialog box plugin for jQuery. It also can be used as a notification widget for your website or project.

[Demo] [Download]

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Beautiful Responsive Modal Dialog Plugin - jQuery XSAlert

A simple but highly customizable plugin for creating beautiful, responsive, themeable Alert/Confirm/Prompt dialog boxes with pretty CSS3 animations.

[Demo] [Download]

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Vanilla JS Dialog Plugins:

Create Nested Bootstrap 5 Modal With JavaScript

Create nested Bootstrap 5 modal windows by using JavaScript. The nested modal can be opened by clicking on any button placed inside the parent modal.

[Demo] [Download]

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sweetalert2

A beautiful, responsive, highly customizable and accessible (WAI-ARIA) replacement for JavaScript's popup boxes. Zero dependencies.

[Demo] [Download]

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Resizable & Draggable Dialog In Pure JavaScript

A vanilla JavaScript library to create a draggable & resizable dialog popup without any frameworks or libraries (e.g. jQuery UI).

[Demo] [Download]

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Notification/Dialog/Loading Indicator JavaScript Library – Fnon

A multifunctional popup box library for creating toast notifications, alert/confirm dialog boxes, and various types of loading indicators on the web app.

[Demo] [Download]

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Small JavaScript Alert & Confirm Dialog Replacement – Custom Alert

A lightweight JavaScript alternative to default alert() and confirm() dialog boxes that make them easy to customize via CSS and JavaScript.

[Demo] [Download]

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Conclusion:

So the next time you have to write a JavaScript or jQuery dialog popup, or when you are looking for a nice plugin to add to your project and can’t decide between the many options out there, consider using one of the plugins from this list. They should cover all your needs and will let you provide a great user experience to all your users!

Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome alert/confirm/prompt dialog boxes on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Dialog and JavaScript Popup sections.

See also:

• 10 Best Modal Components In jQuery/JavaScript/CSS
• 10 Best JavaScript Dialog Plugins To Create Advanced Popup Boxes