Replace alert window

Question

I use in my project third-party obfuscated JS library. The matter is it uses standard alert window for notifications. My task is to replace this browser alert window with my custom. My solution is:

alert = function(msg) {
    customAlert(msg);
}

Is there any another, may be better way to solve this problem?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729501/javascript-overriding-alert — Joe, Aug 06 '11 at 14:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '11 at 14:35

This should be possible by overriding window.alert:

window.alert = function(msg) {
    console.log(msg);
}

Of course, it goes without saying that, if the library has already grabbed a reference to alert, it will be much harder to override (ex, because it has used (function() { var myalert = window.alert; … myalert("foo"); })())…

Replace alert window

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