Alert
Dismissible container for escalated messages
Demo
API
Tag
| Name | Type | Content | ||||||
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m-alert |
Custom Element | Any | ||||||
Attributes
| Name | Value | Description | ||||||
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type required |
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Sets the type of the message. Error messages should use "error", cautionary messages should use "warn", positive messages should use "success", and important informational messages should use "info". | ||||||
autodismiss |
Boolean attribute or Number | If present, the Alert will automatically remove itself after 4 seconds. To increase or decrease the duration, set its value to the desired number of seconds. | ||||||
dismissible |
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When set to "false" the dismiss button will not be displayed so the user can't dismiss the Alert. The application can still directly remove the Alert from the DOM or call its dismiss method. autodismiss is also still effective. |
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Events
| Name | Detail | Description | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
dismiss |
None | Fires after Alert has been dismissed. This happens when the user clicks the dismiss button or after auto-dismiss or the application calls dismiss(). |
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Methods
| Signature | Description | |||||||
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dismiss() |
Can be used to programmatically remove the Alert. | |||||||
Guidelines
Alert vs. Dialog
Some information is so important it justifies interrupting the user experience, so for those cases consider displaying it in a Dialog instead of Alert.
Accessibility
When type is "warn" or "error" the ARIA alert role will be added automatically.