Toasts

Best Practices

• Put Toasts at the top right of the screen.
• Toasts use the same Status Colors as Alerts.
• Status Colors only add visual cues. The content of the Toast must make the meaning obvious to assistive technology users.
• Toasts are only triggered by user actions such as saving, editing, deleting, or creating a file.
• 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 Toast type.
• Toasts may also be used to notify the user about information related to their current action.
• Toasts are persistent regardless of scrolling.
• Toasts are dismissable either by clicking the X to close or they automatically close after a defined time duration (suggestion is 7 seconds).

When writing Toasts, 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.

Usage

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

Resources

• Bootstrap Documentation - Toasts