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layout: docs
title: Alerts
description: Provide contextual feedback messages for typical user actions with the handful of available and flexible alert messages.
group: components
toc: true
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## Examples
Alerts are available for any length of text, as well as an optional dismiss button. For proper styling, use one of the eight **required** contextual classes (e.g., `.alert-success`). For inline dismissal, use the [alerts jQuery plugin](#dismissing).
{% example html %}
{% for color in site.data.theme-colors %}
A simple {{ color.name }} alert—check it out!
{% endfor %}
{% endexample %}
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### Link color
Use the `.alert-link` utility class to quickly provide matching colored links within any alert.
{% example html %}
{% for color in site.data.theme-colors %}
A simple {{ color.name }} alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.
{% endfor %}
{% endexample %}
### Additional content
Alerts can also contain additional HTML elements like headings, paragraphs and dividers.
{% example html %}
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.
{% endexample %}
### 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.
- If you're building our JavaScript from source, it [requires `util.js`]({{ site.baseurl }}/docs/{{ site.docs_version }}/getting-started/javascript/#util). The compiled version includes this.
- Add a dismiss button and the `.alert-dismissible` class, which adds extra padding to the right of the alert and positions the `.close` button.
- On the dismiss button, add the `data-dismiss="alert"` attribute, which triggers the JavaScript functionality. Be sure to use the `