Bootstrap Alert

Rumman Ansari   Software Engineer   2023-01-29   6008 Share
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Alerts are available for any length of text, as well as an optional dismiss button. For proper styling, use one of the eight required contextual classes (e.g., .alert-success).


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<div class="container">
<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
  This is primary alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
  This is secondary alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  This is success alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  This is danger alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  This is warning alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  This is info alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
  This is light alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
  This is dark alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
</div> 


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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
  This is primary alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
  This is secondary alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  This is success alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  This is danger alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  This is warning alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  This is info alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
  This is light alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
  This is dark alert—isn't it amazing?!
</div>
</div>
<body>


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<div class="container">
  <h2>Alerts</h2>
  <p>Alerts are created with the .alert class, followed by a contextual color classes:</p>
  <div class="alert alert-success">
    <strong>Success!</strong> This alert box could indicate a successful or positive action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-info">
    <strong>Info!</strong> This alert box could indicate a neutral informative change or action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-warning">
    <strong>Warning!</strong> This alert box could indicate a warning that might need attention.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-danger">
    <strong>Danger!</strong> This alert box could indicate a dangerous or potentially negative action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-primary">
    <strong>Primary!</strong> Indicates an important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-secondary">
    <strong>Secondary!</strong> Indicates a slightly less important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-dark">
    <strong>Dark!</strong> Dark grey alert.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-light">
    <strong>Light!</strong> Light grey alert.
  </div>
</div>


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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2>Alerts</h2>
  <p>Alerts are created with the .alert class, followed by a contextual color classes:</p>
  <div class="alert alert-success">
    <strong>Success!</strong> This alert box could indicate a successful or positive action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-info">
    <strong>Info!</strong> This alert box could indicate a neutral informative change or action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-warning">
    <strong>Warning!</strong> This alert box could indicate a warning that might need attention.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-danger">
    <strong>Danger!</strong> This alert box could indicate a dangerous or potentially negative action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-primary">
    <strong>Primary!</strong> Indicates an important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-secondary">
    <strong>Secondary!</strong> Indicates a slightly less important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-dark">
    <strong>Dark!</strong> Dark grey alert.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-light">
    <strong>Light!</strong> Light grey alert.
  </div>
</div>

</body>
</html>



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Additional content

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

If you will run above code, you will get below output.


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<div class="container">
 <div class="alert alert-info" 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>
</div>

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
 <div class="container">
 <div class="alert alert-info" 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>
</div>

<body>


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<div class="container">
<div class="alert alert-info" 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>
</div>


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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="alert alert-info" 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>

<body>


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Closing Alerts

To close the alert message, add a .alert-dismissible class to the alert container. Then add class="close" and data-dismiss="alert" to a link or a button element (when you click on this the alert box will disappear).

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<div class="container">
  <h2>Alerts</h2>
  <p>The button with class="close" and data-dismiss="alert" is used to close the alert box.</p>
  <p>The alert-dismissible class adds some extra padding to the close button.</p>
  <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Success!</strong> This alert box could indicate a successful or positive action.
  </div>
 </div> 


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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2>Alerts</h2>
  <p>The button with class="close" and data-dismiss="alert" is used to close the alert box.</p>
  <p>The alert-dismissible class adds some extra padding to the close button.</p>
  <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Success!</strong> This alert box could indicate a successful or positive action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-info alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Info!</strong> This alert box could indicate a neutral informative change or action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-warning alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Warning!</strong> This alert box could indicate a warning that might need attention.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-danger alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Danger!</strong> This alert box could indicate a dangerous or potentially negative action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-primary alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Primary!</strong> Indicates an important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-secondary alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Secondary!</strong> Indicates a slightly less important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-dark alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Dark!</strong> Dark grey alert.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-light alert-dismissible">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Light!</strong> Light grey alert.
  </div>
</div>

</body>
</html>




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Animated Alerts

The .fade and .show classes adds a fading effect when closing the alert message:

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<div class="container">
  <h2>Animated Alerts</h2>
  <p>The .fade and .show classes adds a fading effect when closing the alert message.</p>
  <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Success!</strong> This alert box could indicate a successful or positive action.
  </div>
</div>


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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2>Animated Alerts</h2>
  <p>The .fade and .show classes adds a fading effect when closing the alert message.</p>
  <div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Success!</strong> This alert box could indicate a successful or positive action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-info alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Info!</strong> This alert box could indicate a neutral informative change or action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-warning alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Warning!</strong> This alert box could indicate a warning that might need attention.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-danger alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Danger!</strong> This alert box could indicate a dangerous or potentially negative action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-primary alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Primary!</strong> Indicates an important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-secondary alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Secondary!</strong> Indicates a slightly less important action.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-dark alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Dark!</strong> Dark grey alert.
  </div>
  <div class="alert alert-light alert-dismissible fade show">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
    <strong>Light!</strong> Light grey alert.
  </div>
</div>

</body>
</html>



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