Components

Alerts

Provide contextual feedback messages for typical user actions with the handful of available and flexible alert messages.

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Examples#

Alerts are available for any length of text, as well as an optional close button. For proper styling, use one of the eight required contextual classes (e.g., .alert-success). For inline dismissal, use Bootstrap's alerts JavaScript plugin.

A simple primary alert—check it out!

A simple secondary alert—check it out!

A simple success alert—check it out!

A simple danger alert—check it out!

A simple warning alert—check it out!

A simple info alert—check it out!

A simple light alert—check it out!

A simple dark alert—check it out!

<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
  A simple primary alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
  A simple secondary alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  A simple success alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  A simple danger alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  A simple warning alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  A simple info alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
  A simple light alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
  A simple dark alert—check it out!
</div>

Alerts are pieces of light felt, tinted with their colour and sewn onto the page with a running stitch. Like in Bootstrap, alerts stay subtle; for a solid fill use .text-bg-*.

Link color#

Use the .alert-link utility class to quickly provide matching colored links within any alert.

A simple primary alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple success alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple danger alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
  A simple primary alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  A simple success alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  A simple danger alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>

Additional content#

Alerts can also contain additional HTML elements like headings, paragraphs and dividers.

Well done!

Aww yeah, you successfully read this important alert message. This example text is going to run a bit longer so that you can see how spacing within an alert works with this kind of content.

Whenever you need to, be sure to use margin utilities to keep things nice and tidy.

<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  <h4 class="alert-heading">Well done!</h4>
  <p>Aww yeah, you successfully read this important alert message. This example text is going to run a bit longer so that you can see how spacing within an alert works with this kind of content.</p>
  <hr>
  <p class="mb-0">Whenever you need to, be sure to use margin utilities to keep things nice and tidy.</p>
</div>

Icons#

Similarly, you can use flexbox utilities and any inline SVG icon to create alerts with icons.

An example alert with an icon

<div class="alert alert-warning d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="flex-shrink-0 me-2" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" role="img" aria-label="Warning:">
    <path d="M8.982 1.566a1.13 1.13 0 0 0-1.96 0L.165 13.233c-.457.778.091 1.767.98 1.767h13.713c.889 0 1.438-.99.98-1.767L8.982 1.566zM8 5c.535 0 .954.462.9.995l-.35 3.507a.552.552 0 0 1-1.1 0L7.1 5.995A.905.905 0 0 1 8 5zm.002 6a1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0-2z"/>
  </svg>
  <div>
    An example alert with an icon
  </div>
</div>

Dismissing#

Using Bootstrap's alert JavaScript plugin, it's possible to dismiss any alert inline. Here's how:

Be sure you've loaded Bootstrap's JavaScript.
Add a close button and the .alert-dismissible class, which adds extra padding to the right of the alert and positions the close button.
On the close button, add the data-bs-dismiss="alert" attribute, which triggers the JavaScript functionality.
To animate alerts when dismissing them, be sure to add the .fade and .show classes.

Holy guacamole! You should check in on some of those fields below.

<div class="alert alert-warning alert-dismissible fade show" role="alert">
  <strong>Holy guacamole!</strong> You should check in on some of those fields below.
  <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>

When an alert is dismissed, the element is completely removed from the page structure. If a keyboard user dismisses the alert using the close button, their focus will suddenly be lost. Listen for the closed.bs.alert event and move focus somewhere sensible.

JavaScript behavior#

felt-css is CSS only; dismissing comes from Bootstrap's alert plugin. Methods (close, dispose, getOrCreateInstance) and events (close.bs.alert, closed.bs.alert) work exactly as described in Bootstrap's alert documentation.

const alert = bootstrap.Alert.getOrCreateInstance('#myAlert')
alert.close()