I'm using Bootstrap and want to realize the following:
having a kind of an alert box which disappears after a short period of time automatically. I have something special in my Imagination which I saw often but can't find at the moment. I think the standard bootstrap alert ( and ) is not the right thing, is it? Because I want something to just "appear on top of something", so not as content of the page, if you know what I mean.

So it should just show a short "success information" when entering the page, and then it should disappear again. Or do I missunderstand Bootstrap alert wrong and it's exactly what I'm searching for? If yes, how do I use it? Where do I have to put that "div"?

I'm using Bootstrap and want to realize the following:
having a kind of an alert box which disappears after a short period of time automatically. I have something special in my Imagination which I saw often but can't find at the moment. I think the standard bootstrap alert (http://getbootstrap./javascript/#alerts and http://getbootstrap./ponents/#alerts) is not the right thing, is it? Because I want something to just "appear on top of something", so not as content of the page, if you know what I mean.

So it should just show a short "success information" when entering the page, and then it should disappear again. Or do I missunderstand Bootstrap alert wrong and it's exactly what I'm searching for? If yes, how do I use it? Where do I have to put that "div"?

• javascript
• html
• twitter-bootstrap
• alert

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• 1 I use toastr for something like this – exceptional exception Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 20:03

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Yes, that's also possible with alerts. Just add a timeout for the closing and add position: fixed style to have the alert in front of your content.

The following demo should give you an idea how you could use it.

The same code is also at this fiddle.

$().alert();

setTimeout(function(){$('.alert').alert('close')}, 3000);

.alert {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0px;
}

<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn./bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis./ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn./bootstrap/3.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<div class="alert alert-danger alert-dismissible fade in" role="alert">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
    </button>
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</div>

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If you want an alert box, you can consider something like bootstrap modal. Focus on the usage of the html and js

http://getbootstrap./javascript/#modals-examples

http://getbootstrap./javascript/#modals-usage

Here is a simple code block that can open modal on click, and auto dismiss modal after 2 seconds.

Html:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn./bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="//code.jquery./jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn./bootstrap/3.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>


<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">
  Launch demo modal
</button>

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Modal title</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        ...
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Javascript:

$('#myModal').on('shown.bs.modal', function () {
  window.setTimeout(closeModal, 2000)
});

function closeModal(){
  $('#myModal').modal('hide');
}

Working example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ByrZwv