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How TO - Alerts


Learn how to create alert messages with CSS.


Alerts

Alert messages can be used to notify the user about something special: danger, success, information or warning.

× Danger! Indicates a dangerous or potentially negative action.
× Success! Indicates a successful or positive action.
× Info! Indicates a neutral informative change or action.
× Warning! Indicates a warning that might need attention.

Create An Alert Message

Step 1) Add HTML:

Example

<div class="alert">
  <span class="closebtn" onclick="this.parentElement.style.display='none';">&times;</span>
  This is an alert box.
</div>

If you want the ability to close the alert message, add a <span> element with an onclick attribute that says "when you click on me, hide my parent element" - which is the container <div> (class="alert").

Tip: Use the HTML entity "&times;" to create the letter "x".


Step 2) Add CSS:

Style the alert box and the close button:

Example

/* The alert message box */
.alert {
    padding: 20px;
    background-color: #f44336; /* Red */
    color: white;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
}

/* The close button */
.closebtn {
    margin-left: 15px;
    color: white;
    font-weight: bold;
    float: right;
    font-size: 22px;
    line-height: 20px;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.closebtn:hover {
    color: black;
}
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Many Alerts

If you have many alert messages on a page, you can add the following script to close different alerts without using the onclick attribute on each <span> element.

And, if you want the alerts to slowly fade out when you click on them, add opacity and transition to the alert class:

Example

<style>
.alert {
    opacity: 1;
    transition: opacity 0.6s; // 600ms to fade out
}
</style>

<script>
// Get all elements with class="closebtn"
var close = document.getElementsByClassName("closebtn");
var i;

// Loop through all close buttons
for (i = 0; i < close.length; i++) {
    // When someone clicks on a close button
    close[i].onclick = function(){

        // Get the parent of <span class="closebtn"> (<div class="alert">)
        var div = this.parentElement;

        // Set the opacity of div to 0 (transparent)
        div.style.opacity = "0";

        // Hide the div after 600ms (the same amount of milliseconds it takes to fade out)
        setTimeout(function(){ div.style.display = "none"; }, 600);
    }
}
</script>
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