Alerts

Best Practices

• Put Alerts at the top of the page, under the Page Title.
• Alerts use the Status Colors for their colors and meaning.
• Status Colors only add visual cues. The content of the Alert must make the meaning obvious to assistive technology users.
• Use Info (Blue) to communicate informative or helpful information to users.
• Use Success (Green) to provide feedback to the user indicating an action is successful.
• Use Warning (Yellow) to indicate an unintended, but not dangerous, effect.
• Use Danger (Red) to indicate an action will cause data loss, error, or other hard-to-reverse effects.
• Use the icons provided for each Alert type.

When writing Alerts, keep the following in mind:

• Be clear and specific.
• Use Plain Language, not technical jargon.
• Do not blame the user.
• Avoid negative language.
• Avoid using all uppercase letters unless you are using Acronyms.
• Provide useful information.
• See Voice and Tone for more information.

See the Pen Alerts by LA Gov Design Team (@lagovdesignteam) on CodePen.

Resources

• Bootstrap Documentation - Alerts