Toasts
Push notifications to your visitors with a toast, a lightweight and easily customizable alert message.
Toasts are lightweight notifications designed to mimic the push notifications that have been popularized by mobile and desktop operating systems. They’re built with flexbox, so they’re easy to align and position.
Overview
Things to know when using the toast plugin:
- Toasts are opt-in for performance reasons, so you must initialize them yourself.
- Toasts will automatically hide if you do not specify
autohide: false.
prefers-reduced-motion media query. See the reduced motion section of our accessibility documentation.
Examples
Basic
To encourage extensible and predictable toasts, we recommend a header and body. Toast headers use display: flex, allowing easy alignment of content thanks to our margin and flexbox utilities.
Toasts are as flexible as you need and have very little required markup. At a minimum, we require a single element to contain your “toasted” content and strongly encourage a dismiss button.
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small>11 mins ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
</div>Live
Click the button the below to show as toast (positioning with our utilities in the lower right corner) that has been hidden by default with .hide.
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" id="liveToastBtn">Show live toast</button>
<div class="position-fixed bottom-0 end-0 p-3" style="z-index: 5">
<div id="liveToast" class="toast hide" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small>11 mins ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
</div>
</div>
Translucent
Toasts are slightly translucent, too, so they blend over whatever they might appear over.
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small class="text-muted">11 mins ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
</div>Stacking
You can stack toasts by wrapping them in a toast container, which will vertically add some spacing.
<div class="toast-container">
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small class="text-muted">just now</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
See? Just like this.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small class="text-muted">2 seconds ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Heads up, toasts will stack automatically
</div>
</div>
</div>Custom content
Customize your toasts by removing sub-components, tweaking with utilities, or adding your own markup. Here we’ve created a simpler toast by removing the default .toast-header, adding a custom hide icon from Bootstrap Icons, and using some flexbox utilities to adjust the layout.
<div class="toast align-items-center" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="d-flex">
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
<button type="button" class="btn-close me-2 m-auto" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
</div>Alternatively, you can also add additional controls and components to toasts.
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
<div class="mt-2 pt-2 border-top">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Take action</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary btn-sm" data-bs-dismiss="toast">Close</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>Color schemes
Building on the above example, you can create different toast color schemes with our color and background utilities. Here we’ve added .bg-primary and .text-white to the .toast, and then added .btn-close-white to our close button. For a crisp edge, we remove the default border with .border-0.
<div class="toast align-items-center text-white bg-primary border-0" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="d-flex">
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
<button type="button" class="btn-close btn-close-white me-2 m-auto" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
</div>Placement
Place toasts with custom CSS as you need them. The top right is often used for notifications, as is the top middle. If you’re only ever going to show one toast at a time, put the positioning styles right on the .toast.
<form>
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="selectToastPlacement">Toast placement</label>
<select class="form-select mt-2" id="selectToastPlacement">
<option value="" selected>Select a position...</option>
<option value="top-0 start-0">Top left</option>
<option value="top-0 start-50 translate-middle-x">Top center</option>
<option value="top-0 end-0">Top right</option>
<option value="top-50 start-0 translate-middle-y">Middle left</option>
<option value="top-50 start-50 translate-middle">Middle center</option>
<option value="top-50 end-0 translate-middle-y">Middle right</option>
<option value="bottom-0 start-0">Bottom left</option>
<option value="bottom-0 start-50 translate-middle-x">Bottom center</option>
<option value="bottom-0 end-0">Bottom right</option>
</select>
</div>
</form>
<div aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" class="bg-dark position-relative bd-example-toasts">
<div class="toast-container position-absolute p-3" id="toastPlacement">
<div class="toast">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small>11 mins ago</small>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>For systems that generate more notifications, consider using a wrapping element so they can easily stack.
<div aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" class="position-relative">
<!-- Position it: -->
<!-- - `.toast-container` for spacing between toasts -->
<!-- - `.position-absolute`, `top-0` & `end-0` to position the toasts in the upper right corner -->
<!-- - `.p-3` to prevent the toasts from sticking to the edge of the container -->
<div class="toast-container position-absolute top-0 end-0 p-3">
<!-- Then put toasts within -->
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small class="text-muted">just now</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
See? Just like this.
</div>
</div>
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small class="text-muted">2 seconds ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Heads up, toasts will stack automatically
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>You can also get fancy with flexbox utilities to align toasts horizontally and/or vertically.
<!-- Flexbox container for aligning the toasts -->
<div aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" class="d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center w-100">
<!-- Then put toasts within -->
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small>11 mins ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
</div>
</div>Accessibility
Toasts are intended to be small interruptions to your visitors or users, so to help those with screen readers and similar assistive technologies, you should wrap your toasts in an aria-live region. Changes to live regions (such as injecting/updating a toast component) are automatically announced by screen readers without needing to move the user’s focus or otherwise interrupt the user. Additionally, include aria-atomic="true" to ensure that the entire toast is always announced as a single (atomic) unit, rather than announcing what was changed (which could lead to problems if you only update part of the toast’s content, or if displaying the same toast content at a later point in time). If the information needed is important for the process, e.g. for a list of errors in a form, then use the alert component instead of toast.
Note that the live region needs to be present in the markup before the toast is generated or updated. If you dynamically generate both at the same time and inject them into the page, they will generally not be announced by assistive technologies.
You also need to adapt the role and aria-live level depending on the content. If it’s an important message like an error, use role="alert" aria-live="assertive", otherwise use role="status" aria-live="polite" attributes.
As the content you’re displaying changes, be sure to update the delay timeout to ensure people have enough time to read the toast.
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" data-bs-delay="10000">
<div role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">...</div>
</div>
When using autohide: false, you must add a close button to allow users to dismiss the toast.
<div role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true" class="toast" data-bs-autohide="false">
<div class="toast-header">
<img src="..." class="rounded me-2" alt="...">
<strong class="me-auto">Bootstrap</strong>
<small>11 mins ago</small>
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
<div class="toast-body">
Hello, world! This is a toast message.
</div>
</div>Sass
Variables
$toast-max-width: 350px;
$toast-padding-x: .75rem;
$toast-padding-y: .5rem;
$toast-font-size: .875rem;
$toast-color: null;
$toast-background-color: rgba($white, .85);
$toast-border-width: 1px;
$toast-border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .1);
$toast-border-radius: $border-radius;
$toast-box-shadow: $box-shadow;
$toast-spacing: $container-padding-x;
$toast-header-color: $gray-600;
$toast-header-background-color: rgba($white, .85);
$toast-header-border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .05);
Usage
Initialize toasts via JavaScript:
var toastElList = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('.toast'))
var toastList = toastElList.map(function (toastEl) {
return new bootstrap.Toast(toastEl, option)
})
Options
Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-bs-, as in data-bs-animation="".
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
animation |
boolean | true |
Apply a CSS fade transition to the toast |
autohide |
boolean | true |
Auto hide the toast |
delay |
number |
5000
|
Delay hiding the toast (ms) |
Methods
Asynchronous methods and transitions
All API methods are asynchronous and start a transition. They return to the caller as soon as the transition is started but before it ends. In addition, a method call on a transitioning component will be ignored.
show
Reveals an element’s toast. Returns to the caller before the toast has actually been shown (i.e. before the shown.bs.toast event occurs).
You have to manually call this method, instead your toast won’t show.
toast.show()
hide
Hides an element’s toast. Returns to the caller before the toast has actually been hidden (i.e. before the hidden.bs.toast event occurs). You have to manually call this method if you made autohide to false.
toast.hide()
dispose
Hides an element’s toast. Your toast will remain on the DOM but won’t show anymore.
toast.dispose()
Events
| Event type | Description |
|---|---|
show.bs.toast |
This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called. |
shown.bs.toast |
This event is fired when the toast has been made visible to the user. |
hide.bs.toast |
This event is fired immediately when the hide instance method has been called. |
hidden.bs.toast |
This event is fired when the toast has finished being hidden from the user. |
var myToastEl = document.getElementById('myToast')
myToastEl.addEventListener('hidden.bs.toast', function () {
// do something...
})