Alert

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The Alert component displays a short, important message in a way that attracts the user's attention. Alerts offer four severity levels that set a distinctive icon and color.

Contributors

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Related Jira Tickets

https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/PAR-150

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https://www.figma.com/file/eGmDp94FlqEr4iSqy1Uc1K/Paragon-2021?node-id=2008%3A984

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Resources

Variants

Four severity level variants set a distinctive icon and color.

The Stacked variant is for use with:

  • Sidebars or small containers

  • Extra-small breakpoint and below

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Variants

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Variants

Severity levels

  • Info (default)

  • Warning

  • Danger

  • Success

Layout

Default, Stacked

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Best Practices

Do

Use the Stacked variant in sidebars

Use the Stacked variant at the extra-small breakpoint and smaller

Make all banners dismissible, unless they contain critical information or an important action that users are required to take

Don't

Do not place an icon in the Info variant

Alert banners should never grow larger than outer max-width

Related Components

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Specification

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Behaviors

Accessibility

Focus Management Expectations




Semantics

Using color to add meaning only provides a visual indication, which will not be conveyed to users of assistive technologies – such as screen readers. Ensure that information denoted by the color is either obvious from the content itself (e.g. the visible text), or is included through alternative means, such as additional text hidden with theΒ .sr-onlyΒ class.

@Jeff Witt (Deactivated)@Adam Butterworth (Deactivated) Follow up here on html markup requirements for alerts and lists of alerts.

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