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So I have a pop-up modal which serves as subscription point and it has an email field, this email field has email validation and the error message is displayed in alert box.

My question, is it a good user experience to have a alert box in pop-up modal?

Note: I can't use html 5 email input for some reasons

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  • Can't you run the validation messages next to the email field? I know this is possible with jquery: each key stroke triggers a check on the fields contents and can return an inline message based on wether the content of the field is a valid email address or not - You could also add in a check on focus change to give two different levels of inline alert: a low level inline alerts ("that's not quite an email address") on keystroke and a more urgent inline alert ("The email address you have entered is not valid") when the email field is de-focussed. Personally, I don't like alert boxes.
    – Roux Martin
    Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 8:16

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An alert is not preferable since it indicates an error on "another layer", when it´s better to placer error messages the closest you can to the source of the error (in this case an input) to avoid the user the extra work of scanning where is the problem and perform 1 additional action (accept/close).

You could try inline validation, which will inform the user what's and where's the problem just after they fill the input.

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