Following the line of the previous post, here is another set of reusable classes I like to use. This time to create Message Boxes which I found myself using in almost every site I make, mostly on the forms. These Message Boxes are useful to display and inform in a nice way different messages, like announcements, alerts, or status information. I like to keep things simple so i use a very clean style:
CSS classes:
Nothing too fancy or complicated. I use a main class .message-box , and then the different style variations separated, but just to dont repeat code and keep things more organized:
/* MESSAGE BOXES
/////////////////////////////*/
.message-box { text-align: center; padding: 5px; color:#545454; width:80%; margin:5px auto; }
.clean { background-color: #efefef; border-top: 2px solid #dedede; border-bottom: 2px solid #dedede; }
.info { background-color: #f7fafd; border-top: 2px solid #b5d3ff; border-bottom: 2px solid #b5d3ff; }
.ok { background-color: #d7f7c4; border-top: 2px solid #82cb2f; border-bottom: 2px solid #82cb2f; }
.alert { background-color: #fef5be; border-top: 2px solid #fdd425; border-bottom: 2px solid #fdd425; }
.error { background-color: #ffcdd1; border-top: 2px solid #e10c0c; border-bottom: 2px solid #e10c0c; }
How to use them:
It is very easy to implement them, you have to first add the message-box class and then the wanted style class ( .clean, .info, .ok, .alert or .error ) to the element you want to use as message box. I tend to use a <p> element to display them:
<p class="message-box info">This is an Info Message</p> <p class="message-box ok">This is an Ok Message</p> <p class="message-box alert">This is an Alert Message</p> <p class="message-box error">This is an Error Message</p>
And thats it. Simple but nice looking! I hope you enjoyed, thanks for reading.
Great Post! Concise and to the point. If only ALL tech bloggers were like you lol. The Web would be sweeet!
It’s very elementary but practical tut. I like it! Thanks
I appreciate your comments, Thank you!
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Good color choices
I like it! Thanks!
Hey! This is so good!
Awesome post. It was like a CSS a-ha moment. I spruced up 3 blogs with your code. It makes posts more readable, to break it up with short punchy message boxes in this technique. Thanks.
@Dgold Glad to hear that, you are welcome. Thank you for the nice comment :)
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I like the concept you are using for this.