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Alerts

---
title: Alerts
description: Provide contextual feedback messages for typical user actions with the handful of available and flexible alert messages.
toc: true
---

## Examples

Alerts are available for any length of text, as well as an optional close button. For proper styling, use one of the eight **required** contextual classes (e.g., `.alert-success`). For inline dismissal, use the [alerts JavaScript plugin](/docs/components/alerts/#dismissing).

<Example
  html={`<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
  A simple primary alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
    A simple secondary alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  A simple success alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  A simple danger alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  A simple warning alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  A simple info alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
  A simple light alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
  A simple dark alert—check it out!
</div>`}
/>

<Callout type="info">
  **Accessibility tip:** Using color to add meaning only provides a visual indication, which will not be conveyed to
  users of assistive technologies like screen readers. Please ensure the meaning is obvious from the content itself
  (e.g., the visible text with a [sufficient color contrast](/docs/getting-started/accessibility/#color-contrast)) or is
  included through alternative means, such as additional text hidden with the `.visually-hidden` class.
</Callout>

### Live example

Click the button below to show an alert (hidden with inline styles to start), then dismiss (and destroy) it with the built-in close button.

<Example html={`<div id="liveAlertPlaceholder"></div>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" id="liveAlertBtn">Show live alert</button>`}
js={`const alertPlaceholder = document.getElementById('liveAlertPlaceholder')
const appendAlert = (message, type) => {
  const wrapper = document.createElement('div')
  wrapper.innerHTML =
  '<div class="alert alert-' + type + ' alert-dismissible" role="alert">' +
  '   <div>' + message + '</div>' +
  '   <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>' +
  '</div>';

alertPlaceholder.append(wrapper)
}

const alertTrigger = document.getElementById('liveAlertBtn')
if (alertTrigger) {
alertTrigger.addEventListener('click', () => {
appendAlert('Nice, you triggered this alert message!', 'success')
})
}
`} />

We use the following JavaScript to trigger our live alert demo:

```js
const alertPlaceholder = document.getElementById('liveAlertPlaceholder');
const appendAlert = (message, type) => {
  const wrapper = document.createElement('div');
  wrapper.innerHTML =
    '<div class="alert alert-' + type + ' alert-dismissible" role="alert">' +
    '   <div>' +
    message +
    '</div>' +
    '   <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>' +
    '</div>';

alertPlaceholder.append(wrapper);
};

const alertTrigger = document.getElementById('liveAlertBtn');
if (alertTrigger) {
  alertTrigger.addEventListener('click', () => {
    appendAlert('Nice, you triggered this alert message!', 'success');
  });
}
```

### Link color

Use the `.alert-link` utility class to quickly provide matching colored links within any alert.

<Example
  html={`<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
  A simple primary alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
  A simple secondary alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
  A simple success alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
  A simple danger alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  A simple warning alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
  A simple info alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
  A simple light alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
  A simple dark alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>`}
/>

### Additional content

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

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

### Icons

Similarly, you can use [flexbox utilities](/docs/utilities/flex) and [Remix Icon](https://remixicon.com/) to create alerts with icons. Depending on your icons and content, you may want to add more utilities or custom styles.

<Example
  html={`<div class="alert alert-primary d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
  <i class="ri-error-warning-fill me-2" role="img" aria-label="Warning:"></i>
  <div>
    An example alert with an icon
  </div>
</div>`}
/>

Need more than one icon for your alerts? Consider using more Remix Icon glyphs or making a local SVG sprite like so to easily reference the same icons repeatedly.

<Example
  html={`<div class="alert alert-primary d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
  <i class="ri-information-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Info:"></i>
  <div>
    An example alert with an icon
  </div>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
  <i class="ri-checkbox-circle-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Success:"></i>
  <div>
    An example success alert with an icon
  </div>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
  <i class="ri-error-warning-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Warning:"></i>
  <div>
    An example warning alert with an icon
  </div>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
  <i class="ri-error-warning-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Danger:"></i>
  <div>
    An example danger alert with an icon
  </div>
</div>`}
/>

### Dismissing

Using the alert JavaScript plugin, it’s possible to dismiss any alert inline. Here’s how:

- Be sure you’ve loaded the alert plugin, or the compiled Bootstrap JavaScript.
- Add a [close button](/docs/components/close-button) and the `.alert-dismissible` class, which adds extra padding to the right of the alert and positions the close button.
- On the close button, add the `data-bs-dismiss="alert"` attribute, which triggers the JavaScript functionality. Be sure to use the `<button>` element with it for proper behavior across all devices.
- To animate alerts when dismissing them, be sure to add the `.fade` and `.show` classes.

You can see this in action with a live demo:

<Example
  html={`<div class="alert alert-warning alert-dismissible fade show" role="alert">
  <strong>Holy guacamole!</strong> You should check in on some of those fields below.
  <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>`}
/>

<Callout type="warning">
  When an alert is dismissed, the element is completely removed from the page structure. If a keyboard user dismisses
  the alert using the close button, their focus will suddenly be lost and, depending on the browser, reset to the start
  of the page/document. For this reason, we recommend including additional JavaScript that listens for the
  `closed.bs.alert` event and programmatically sets `focus()` to the most appropriate location in the page. If you’re
  planning to move focus to a non-interactive element that normally does not receive focus, make sure to add
  `tabindex="-1"` to the element.
</Callout>

## JavaScript behavior

### Initialize

Initialize elements as alerts

```js
const alertList = document.querySelectorAll('.alert');
const alerts = [...alertList].map((element) => new bootstrap.Alert(element));
```

<Callout type="info">
  For the sole purpose of dismissing an alert, it isn’t necessary to initialize the component manually via the JS API.
  By making use of `data-bs-dismiss="alert"`, the component will be initialized automatically and properly dismissed.
  See the [triggers](/docs/components/alerts/#triggers) section for more details.
</Callout>

### Triggers

Dismissal can be achieved with the `data-bs-dismiss` attribute on a button **within the alert** as demonstrated below:

```html
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>
```

or on a button **outside the alert** using the additional `data-bs-target` as demonstrated below:

```html
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" data-bs-target="#my-alert" aria-label="Close"></button>
```

**Note that closing an alert will remove it from the DOM.**

### Methods

You can create an alert instance with the alert constructor, for example:

```js
const bsAlert = new bootstrap.Alert('#myAlert');
```

This makes an alert listen for click events on descendant elements which have the `data-bs-dismiss="alert"` attribute. (Not necessary when using the data-api’s auto-initialization.)

<BsTable>
| Method | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `close` | Closes an alert by removing it from the DOM. If the `.fade` and `.show` classes are present on the element, the alert will fade out before it is removed. |
| `dispose` | Destroys an element’s alert. (Removes stored data on the DOM element) |
| `getInstance` | Static method which allows you to get the alert instance associated to a DOM element. For example: `bootstrap.Alert.getInstance(alert)`. |
| `getOrCreateInstance` | Static method which returns an alert instance associated to a DOM element or create a new one in case it wasn’t initialized. You can use it like this: `bootstrap.Alert.getOrCreateInstance(element)`. |
</BsTable>

Basic usage:

```js
const alert = bootstrap.Alert.getOrCreateInstance('#myAlert');
alert.close();
```

### Events

Bootstrap’s alert plugin exposes a few events for hooking into alert functionality.

<BsTable>
| Event | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `close.bs.alert` | Fires immediately when the `close` instance method is called. |
| `closed.bs.alert` | Fired when the alert has been closed and CSS transitions have completed. |
</BsTable>

```js
const myAlert = document.getElementById('myAlert');
myAlert.addEventListener('closed.bs.alert', (event) => {
  // do something, for instance, explicitly move focus to the most appropriate element,
  // so it doesn’t get lost/reset to the start of the page
  // document.getElementById('...').focus()
});
```

Provide contextual feedback messages for typical user actions with the handful of available and flexible alert messages.

Examples

Alerts are available for any length of text, as well as an optional close button. For proper styling, use one of the eight required contextual classes (e.g., .alert-success). For inline dismissal, use the alerts JavaScript plugin.

A simple primary alert—check it out!

A simple secondary alert—check it out!

A simple success alert—check it out!

A simple danger alert—check it out!

A simple warning alert—check it out!

A simple info alert—check it out!

A simple light alert—check it out!

A simple dark alert—check it out!

<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
A simple primary alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
  A simple secondary alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
A simple success alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
A simple danger alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
A simple warning alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
A simple info alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
A simple light alert—check it out!
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
A simple dark alert—check it out!
</div>

Accessibility tip: Using color to add meaning only provides a visual indication, which will not be conveyed to users of assistive technologies like screen readers. Please ensure the meaning is obvious from the content itself (e.g., the visible text with a sufficient color contrast) or is included through alternative means, such as additional text hidden with the .visually-hidden class.

Live example

Click the button below to show an alert (hidden with inline styles to start), then dismiss (and destroy) it with the built-in close button.

<div id="liveAlertPlaceholder"></div>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" id="liveAlertBtn">Show live alert</button>

const alertPlaceholder = document.getElementById('liveAlertPlaceholder')
const appendAlert = (message, type) => {
const wrapper = document.createElement('div')
wrapper.innerHTML =
'<div class="alert alert-' + type + ' alert-dismissible" role="alert">' +
'   <div>' + message + '</div>' +
'   <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>' +
'</div>';

alertPlaceholder.append(wrapper)
}

const alertTrigger = document.getElementById('liveAlertBtn')
if (alertTrigger) {
alertTrigger.addEventListener('click', () => {
appendAlert('Nice, you triggered this alert message!', 'success')
})
}

We use the following JavaScript to trigger our live alert demo:

const alertPlaceholder = document.getElementById('liveAlertPlaceholder');
const appendAlert = (message, type) => {
  const wrapper = document.createElement('div');
  wrapper.innerHTML =
    '<div class="alert alert-' + type + ' alert-dismissible" role="alert">' +
    '   <div>' +
    message +
    '</div>' +
    '   <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>' +
    '</div>';

  alertPlaceholder.append(wrapper);
};

const alertTrigger = document.getElementById('liveAlertBtn');
if (alertTrigger) {
  alertTrigger.addEventListener('click', () => {
    appendAlert('Nice, you triggered this alert message!', 'success');
  });
}

Link color

Use the .alert-link utility class to quickly provide matching colored links within any alert.

A simple primary alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple secondary alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple success alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple danger alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple warning alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple info alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple light alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple dark alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

<div class="alert alert-primary" role="alert">
A simple primary alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-secondary" role="alert">
A simple secondary alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
A simple success alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
A simple danger alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
A simple warning alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
A simple info alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-light" role="alert">
A simple light alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>
<div class="alert alert-dark" role="alert">
A simple dark alert with <a href="#" class="alert-link">an example link</a>. Give it a click if you like.
</div>

Additional content

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

Well done!

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.

Whenever you need to, be sure to use margin utilities to keep things nice and tidy.

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

Icons

Similarly, you can use flexbox utilities and Remix Icon to create alerts with icons. Depending on your icons and content, you may want to add more utilities or custom styles.

An example alert with an icon

<div class="alert alert-primary d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
<i class="ri-error-warning-fill me-2" role="img" aria-label="Warning:"></i>
<div>
  An example alert with an icon
</div>
</div>

Need more than one icon for your alerts? Consider using more Remix Icon glyphs or making a local SVG sprite like so to easily reference the same icons repeatedly.

An example alert with an icon

An example success alert with an icon

An example warning alert with an icon

An example danger alert with an icon

<div class="alert alert-primary d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
<i class="ri-information-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Info:"></i>
<div>
  An example alert with an icon
</div>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-success d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
<i class="ri-checkbox-circle-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Success:"></i>
<div>
  An example success alert with an icon
</div>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
<i class="ri-error-warning-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Warning:"></i>
<div>
  An example warning alert with an icon
</div>
</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger d-flex align-items-center" role="alert">
<i class="ri-error-warning-fill me-3" role="img" aria-label="Danger:"></i>
<div>
  An example danger alert with an icon
</div>
</div>

Dismissing

Using the alert JavaScript plugin, it’s possible to dismiss any alert inline. Here’s how:

Be sure you’ve loaded the alert plugin, or the compiled Bootstrap JavaScript.
Add a close button and the .alert-dismissible class, which adds extra padding to the right of the alert and positions the close button.
On the close button, add the data-bs-dismiss="alert" attribute, which triggers the JavaScript functionality. Be sure to use the <button> element with it for proper behavior across all devices.
To animate alerts when dismissing them, be sure to add the .fade and .show classes.

You can see this in action with a live demo:

Holy guacamole! You should check in on some of those fields below.

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

When an alert is dismissed, the element is completely removed from the page structure. If a keyboard user dismisses the alert using the close button, their focus will suddenly be lost and, depending on the browser, reset to the start of the page/document. For this reason, we recommend including additional JavaScript that listens for the closed.bs.alert event and programmatically sets focus() to the most appropriate location in the page. If you’re planning to move focus to a non-interactive element that normally does not receive focus, make sure to add tabindex="-1" to the element.

JavaScript behavior

Initialize

Initialize elements as alerts

const alertList = document.querySelectorAll('.alert');
const alerts = [...alertList].map((element) => new bootstrap.Alert(element));

For the sole purpose of dismissing an alert, it isn’t necessary to initialize the component manually via the JS API. By making use of data-bs-dismiss="alert", the component will be initialized automatically and properly dismissed. See the triggers section for more details.

Triggers

Dismissal can be achieved with the data-bs-dismiss attribute on a button within the alert as demonstrated below:

<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"></button>

or on a button outside the alert using the additional data-bs-target as demonstrated below:

<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="alert" data-bs-target="#my-alert" aria-label="Close"></button>

Note that closing an alert will remove it from the DOM.

Methods

You can create an alert instance with the alert constructor, for example:

const bsAlert = new bootstrap.Alert('#myAlert');

This makes an alert listen for click events on descendant elements which have the data-bs-dismiss="alert" attribute. (Not necessary when using the data-api’s auto-initialization.)

Method	Description
`close`	Closes an alert by removing it from the DOM. If the `.fade` and `.show` classes are present on the element, the alert will fade out before it is removed.
`dispose`	Destroys an element’s alert. (Removes stored data on the DOM element)
`getInstance`	Static method which allows you to get the alert instance associated to a DOM element. For example: `bootstrap.Alert.getInstance(alert)`.
`getOrCreateInstance`	Static method which returns an alert instance associated to a DOM element or create a new one in case it wasn’t initialized. You can use it like this: `bootstrap.Alert.getOrCreateInstance(element)`.