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layout: docs
title: Toasts
description: Push notifications to your visitors with a toast, a lightweight and easily customizable alert message.
group: components
toc: true
---

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`.

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## 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.

{{< example class="bg-light" >}}
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
  <div class="toast-header">
    {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
    <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>
{{< /example >}}

### Translucent

Toasts are slightly translucent, too, so they blend over whatever they might appear over. For browsers that support the `backdrop-filter` CSS property, we'll also attempt to blur the elements under a toast.

{{< example class="bg-dark" >}}
<div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
  <div class="toast-header">
    {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
    <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>
{{< /example >}}

### Stacking

You can stack toasts by wrapping them in a toast container, which will vertically add some spacing.

{{< example class="bg-light" >}}
<div class="toast-container">
  <div class="toast" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
    <div class="toast-header">
      {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
      <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">
      {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
      <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>
{{< /example >}}

### Custom content

Customize your toasts by removing sub-components, tweaking with [utilities]({{< docsref "/utilities/api" >}}), 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]({{< param icons >}}), and using some [flexbox utilities]({{< docsref "/utilities/flex" >}}) to adjust the layout.

{{< example class="bg-light" >}}
<div class="toast d-flex align-items-center" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
  <div class="toast-body">
    Hello, world! This is a toast message.
  </div>
  <button type="button" class="btn-close ms-auto me-2" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
{{< /example >}}

Alternatively, you can also add additional controls and components to toasts.

{{< example class="bg-light" >}}
<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>
{{< /example >}}

### Color schemes

Building on the above example, you can create different toast color schemes with our [color utilities]({{< docsref "/utilities/colors" >}}). Here we've added `.bg-primary` and `.text-white` to the `.toast`, and then added `.text-white` to our close button. For a crisp edge, we remove the default border with `.border-0`.

{{< example class="bg-light" >}}
<div class="toast d-flex align-items-center text-white bg-primary border-0" role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true">
  <div class="toast-body">
    Hello, world! This is a toast message.
  </div>
  <button type="button" class="btn-close btn-close-white ms-auto me-2" data-bs-dismiss="toast" aria-label="Close"></button>
</div>
{{< /example >}}

## 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`.

{{< example >}}
<form>
  <div class="form-group 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">
        {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
        <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>
{{< /example >}}

For systems that generate more notifications, consider using a wrapping element so they can easily stack.

{{< example class="bg-dark bd-example-toasts p-0" >}}
<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">
        {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
        <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">
        {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
        <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>
{{< /example >}}

You can also get fancy with flexbox utilities to align toasts horizontally and/or vertically.

{{< example class="bg-dark bd-example-toasts d-flex" >}}
<!-- 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">
      {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
      <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>
{{< /example >}}

## 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](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Live_Regions). 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]({{< docsref "/components/alerts" >}}) 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](#options) to ensure people have enough time to read the toast.

```html
<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.

{{< example class="bg-light" >}}
<div role="alert" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true" class="toast" data-bs-autohide="false">
  <div class="toast-header">
    {{< placeholder width="20" height="20" background="#007aff" class="rounded me-2" text="false" title="false" >}}
    <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>
{{< /example >}}

## JavaScript behavior

### Usage

Initialize toasts via JavaScript:

```js
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=""`.

<table class="table">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th style="width: 100px;">Name</th>
      <th style="width: 100px;">Type</th>
      <th style="width: 50px;">Default</th>
      <th>Description</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><code>animation</code></td>
      <td>boolean</td>
      <td><code>true</code></td>
      <td>Apply a CSS fade transition to the toast</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>autohide</code></td>
      <td>boolean</td>
      <td><code>true</code></td>
      <td>Auto hide the toast</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>delay</code></td>
      <td>number</td>
      <td>
        <code>5000</code>
      </td>
      <td>Delay hiding the toast (ms)</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

### Methods

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#### 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.

```js
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`.

```js
toast.hide()
```

#### dispose

Hides an element's toast. Your toast will remain on the DOM but won't show anymore.

```js
toast.dispose()
```

### Events

<table class="table">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th style="width: 150px;">Event type</th>
      <th>Description</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><code>show.bs.toast</code></td>
      <td>This event fires immediately when the <code>show</code> instance method is called.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>shown.bs.toast</code></td>
      <td>This event is fired when the toast has been made visible to the user.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>hide.bs.toast</code></td>
      <td>This event is fired immediately when the <code>hide</code> instance method has been called.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>hidden.bs.toast</code></td>
      <td>This event is fired when the toast has finished being hidden from the user.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

```js
var myToastEl = document.getElementById('myToast')
myToastEl.addEventListener('hidden.bs.toast', function () {
  // do something...
})
```
