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APEX 24.2 - How to style only the Cancel button of the standard DELETE confirmation dialog?

Dan IleaJul 12 2026

Hi,

I'm using Oracle APEX 24.2.

I have a standard Form page with a DELETE button.

Button configuration:
- Action = Submit Page
- Database Action = Delete
- Confirmation Message enabled

I successfully changed the Cancel button label by creating the Text Message:

APEX.DIALOG.CANCEL

with "Used in JavaScript = Yes".

So the standard confirmation dialog uses this message.

Now I would like to style only the Cancel button.

Browser inspection shows:

Cancel button:

<button type="button" class="ui-button ui-corner-all ui-widget">

Confirm button:

<button type="button" class="js-confirmBtn ui-button ui-corner-all ui-widget ui-button--hot">

There is no id="apexConfirmBtn" anymore in APEX 24.2.

The following works perfectly from the browser console:

$(".ui-dialog-buttonpane button:not(.js-confirmBtn)").css({
background:"#b71c1c",
color:"#fff",
borderColor:"#b71c1c"
});

However, exactly the same selector placed in:
- Page Inline CSS
- Application CSS
- External CSS file

has no effect.

Is there a supported way to style only the Cancel button of the standard DELETE confirmation dialog in APEX 24.2?

This is the built-in confirmation dialog generated by APEX, not apex.message.confirm().

Thank you.

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