Notice Edit

Use Notices to communicate prominent messages to the user.

Table of contents #Table of contents

1. Design guidelines
2. Development guidelines
3. Related components

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Design guidelines #Design guidelines

A Notice displays a succinct message. It can also offer the user options, like viewing a published post or updating a setting, and requires a user action to be dismissed.

Use Notices to communicate things that are important but don’t necessarily require action — a user can keep using the product even if they don’t choose to act on a Notice. They are less interruptive than a Modal.

Anatomy #Anatomy

1. Container (status indicated with color)
2. Icon (optional)
3. Message
4. Dismiss icon (optional)

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Usage #Usage

Notices display at the top of the screen, below any toolbars anchored to the top of the page. They’re persistent and non-modal. Since they don’t overlay the content, users can ignore or dismiss them, and choose when to interact with them.

Notices are color-coded to indicate the type of message being communicated:

• Default notices have no background.
• Informational notices are blue.
• Success notices are green.
• Warning notices are yellow****.
• Error notices are red.

If an icon is included in the Notice, it should be color-coded to match the Notice state.

Do
Do use a Notice when you want to communicate a message of medium importance.

Don’t
Don’t use a Notice for a message that requires immediate attention and action from the user. Use a Modal for this instead.

Do
Do display Notices at the top of the screen, below any toolbars.

Don’t
Don’t show Notices on top of toolbars.

Do
Do use color to indicate the type of message being communicated.

Don’t
Don’t apply any colors other than those for Warnings, Success, or Errors.

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Development guidelines #Development guidelines

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Usage #Usage

To display a plain notice, pass Notice a string:

const MyNotice = () => (
    <Notice status="error">
        An unknown error occurred.
    </Notice>
);

For more complex markup, you can pass any JSX element:

const MyNotice = () => (
    <Notice status="error">
        <p>An error occurred: <code>{ errorDetails }</code>.</p>
    </Notice>
);

Props #Props

The following props are used to control the display of the component.

• status: (string) can be warning (yellow), success (green), error (red).
• onRemove: function called when dismissing the notice
• isDismissible: (boolean) defaults to true, whether the notice should be dismissible or not
• actions: (array) an array of action objects. Each member object should contain a label and either a url link string or onClick callback function. A className property can be used to add custom classes to the button styles. By default, some classes are used (e.g: is-link or is-default) the default classes can be removed by setting property noDefaultClasses to false.

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Related components #Related components

• To create a more prominent message that requires action, use a Modal.