Bootstrap Alert Popup

Intro

The alerts are created by all these components you even usually do not consider till you totally get to need them. They are taken for presenting prompt in time information for the user working with the web-site hopefully aiming his or hers attention to a specific direction or evoking specific actions.

The alerts are most commonly used together with forms to give the user a recommendation if a area has been filled in wrong, which is the effective format expected or which is the condition of the submission just after the submit button has been clicked.

As a lot of the elements in the Bootstrap framework the alerts also do have a neat predefined presentation and semantic classes that may possibly be used according to the particular circumstance in which the Bootstrap Alert has been displayed on screen. Considering that it's an alert text message it's important to get user's interest but after all leave him in the zone of comfort nevertheless it might even be an error message. ( find out more)

This gets accomplished by the use of delicate pale color options each being intuitively been connected to the semantic of the message content such as green for Success, Light Blue for fundamental details, Pale yellow desiring for user's attention and Mild red revealing there is actually something wrong.

<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  <strong>Well done!</strong> You successfully read this important alert message.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  <strong>Heads up!</strong> This alert needs your attention, but it's not super important.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  <strong>Warning!</strong> Better check yourself, you're not looking too good.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  <strong>Oh snap!</strong> Change a few things up and try submitting again.
</div>

Color tone of the web link

This might actually not be spotted at a glance but the font color tone itself is actually following this color design as well-- just the color tones are much much darker so get unconsciously seen as black however it's not exactly so.

Same runs not only for the alert message in itself but at the same time for the web links incorporated in it-- there are link classes taking out the outline and colouring the anchor elements in the appropriate color tone so they match the overall alert text look.

<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  <strong>Well done!</strong> You successfully read <a href="#" class="alert-link">this important alert message</a>.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  <strong>Heads up!</strong> This <a href="#" class="alert-link">alert needs your attention</a>, but it's not super important.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  <strong>Warning!</strong> Better check yourself, you're <a href="#" class="alert-link">not looking too good</a>.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  <strong>Oh snap!</strong> <a href="#" class="alert-link">Change a few things up</a> and try submitting again.
</div>

Other details for alerts

A factor to mention-- the colours carry their clear interpretation only for those who really get to notice them. It's a good thing to either make sure the visible text itself carries the meaning of the alert well enough or to eventually add some additional descriptions to only be seen by the screen readers in order to grant the page's accessibility.

Together with links and basic HTML tags like strong for example the alert elements in Bootstrap 4 can also have Headings and paragraphs for the circumstances when you need to present a bit longer content ( find out more).

<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>
  <p class="mb-0">Whenever you need to, be sure to use margin utilities to keep things nice and tidy.</p>
</div>

Dismiss the alert

You can additionally include an X icon to dismiss the alert and add in a cool transition to it to one more time provide the visual pleasure of the Bootstrap Alert Warning visitors.

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

Currently there are four types of contextual alert messages in Bootstrap 4 framework - they are knowned as Success, Info, Warning and Danger. Do not allow however their titles to narrow down the manner you're making use of them-- these are just some color schemes and the way they will be actually performed in your site is definitely up to you and totally depends on the certain situation.

For example-- if the color design of your page makes use of the red as basic colour it may be pretty well-suited to display the alert for successful form submission in red too working with the predefined alert danger look in order to much better mix with the webpage and save time specifying your own classes.

The predefined alert classes are just some consistent appearances and the responsibility for using them lays entirely on the designer's shoulders.

JavaScript activities of the Bootstrap Alert Colors

Triggers

Enable dismissal of an alert by using JavaScript

$(".alert").alert()

Enable termination of an alert via JavaScript

Or else with data features on a button within the alert, as indicated just above

<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">
  <span aria-hidden="true">×</span>
</button>

Notice that shutting off an alert will take it out from the DOM.

Approaches

$().alert()

- Helps make an alert listen for click on events on descendant elements which in turn have the data-dismiss=" alert" attribute. (Not needed while using the data-api's auto-initialization).

$().alert('close')

- Shuts off an alert by removing it from the DOM. The alert will go out just before it is removed if the.fade and.show classes are available on the element.