--- title: Message lang: en-US --- # Message Box A set of modal boxes simulating system message box, mainly for alerting information, confirm operations and prompting messages. :::tip By design MessageBox provides simulations of system's `alert`, `confirm` and `prompt`，so it's content should be simple. For more complicated contents, please use Dialog. ::: ## Alert Alert interrupts user operation until the user confirms. :::demo Open an alert by calling the `$alert` method. It simulates the system's `alert`, and cannot be closed by pressing ESC or clicking outside the box. In this example, two parameters `message` and `title` are received. It is worth mentioning that when the box is closed, it returns a `Promise` object for further processing. If you are not sure if your target browsers support `Promise`, you should import a third party polyfill or use callbacks instead like this example. message-box/alert ::: ## Confirm Confirm is used to ask users' confirmation. :::demo Call `$confirm` method to open a confirm, and it simulates the system's `confirm`. We can also highly customize Message Box by passing a third attribute `options` which is a literal object. The attribute `type` indicates the message type, and it's value can be `success`, `error`, `info` and `warning`. Note that the second attribute `title` must be a `string`, and if it is an `object`, it will be handled as the attribute `options`. Here we use `Promise` to handle further processing. message-box/confirm ::: ## Prompt Prompt is used when user input is required. :::demo Call `$prompt` method to open a prompt, and it simulates the system's `prompt`. You can use `inputPattern` parameter to specify your own RegExp pattern. Use `inputValidator` to specify validation method, and it should return `Boolean` or `String`. Returning `false` or `String` means the validation has failed, and the string returned will be used as the `inputErrorMessage`. In addition, you can customize the placeholder of the input box with `inputPlaceholder` parameter. message-box/prompt ::: ## Customization Can be customized to show various content. :::demo The three methods mentioned above are repackagings of the `$msgbox` method. This example calls `$msgbox` method directly using the `showCancelButton` attribute, which is used to indicate if a cancel button is displayed. Besides we can use `cancelButtonClass` to add a custom style and `cancelButtonText` to customize the button text (the confirm button also has these fields, and a complete list of fields can be found at the end of this documentation). This example also uses the `beforeClose` attribute. It is a method and will be triggered when the MessageBox instance will be closed, and its execution will stop the instance from closing. It has three parameters: `action`, `instance` and `done`. Using it enables you to manipulate the instance before it closes, e.g. activating `loading` for confirm button; you can invoke the `done` method to close the MessageBox instance (if `done` is not called inside `beforeClose`, the instance will not be closed). message-box/customization ::: :::tip The content of MessageBox can be `VNode`, allowing us to pass custom components. When opening the MessageBox, Vue compares new `VNode` with old `VNode`, then figures out how to efficiently update the UI, so the components may not be completely re-rendered ([#8931](https://github.com/ElemeFE/element/issues/8931)). In this case, you can add a unique key to `VNode` each time MessageBox opens: [example](https://jsfiddle.net/zhiyang/ezmhq2ef). ::: ## Use HTML String `message` supports HTML string. :::demo Set `dangerouslyUseHTMLString` to true and `message` will be treated as an HTML string. message-box/use-html ::: :::warning Although `message` property supports HTML strings, dynamically rendering arbitrary HTML on your website can be very dangerous because it can easily lead to [XSS attacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting). So when `dangerouslyUseHTMLString` is on, please make sure the content of `message` is trusted, and **never** assign `message` to user-provided content. ::: ## Distinguishing cancel and close In some cases, clicking the cancel button and close button may have different meanings. :::demo By default, the parameters of Promise's reject callback and `callback` are 'cancel' when the user cancels (clicking the cancel button) and closes (clicking the close button or mask layer, pressing the ESC key) the MessageBox. If `distinguishCancelAndClose` is set to true, the parameters of the above two operations are 'cancel' and 'close' respectively. message-box/distinguishable-close-cancel ::: ## Centered content Content of MessageBox can be centered. :::demo Setting `center` to `true` will center the content message-box/centered-content ::: ## Global method If Element Plus is fully imported, it will add the following global methods for `app.config.globalProperties`: `$msgbox`, `$alert`, `$confirm` and `$prompt`. So in a Vue instance you can call `MessageBox` like what we did in this page. The parameters are: - `$msgbox(options)` - `$alert(message, title, options)` or `$alert(message, options)` - `$confirm(message, title, options)` or `$confirm(message, options)` - `$prompt(message, title, options)` or `$prompt(message, options)` ## Local import If you prefer importing `MessageBox` on demand: ```ts import { ElMessageBox } from 'element-plus' ``` The corresponding methods are: `ElMessageBox`, `ElMessageBox.alert`, `ElMessageBox.confirm` and `ElMessageBox.prompt`. The parameters are the same as above. ## Options | Attribute | Description | Type | Accepted Values | Default | | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | | title | title of the MessageBox | string | — | — | | message | content of the MessageBox | string | — | — | | dangerouslyUseHTMLString | whether `message` is treated as HTML string | boolean | — | false | | type | message type, used for icon display | string | success / info / warning / error | — | | icon | custom icon component, overrides `type` | string / Component | — | — | | custom-class | custom class name for MessageBox | string | — | — | | custom-style | custom inline style for MessageBox | CSSProperties | — | — | | callback | MessageBox closing callback if you don't prefer Promise | function(action), where action can be 'confirm', 'cancel' or 'close', and `instance` is the MessageBox instance. You can access to that instance's attributes and methods | — | — | | showClose | whether to show close icon of MessageBox | boolean | — | true | | before-close | callback before MessageBox closes, and it will prevent MessageBox from closing | function(action, instance, done), where `action` can be 'confirm', 'cancel' or 'close'; `instance` is the MessageBox instance, and you can access to that instance's attributes and methods; `done` is for closing the instance | — | — | | distinguish-cancel-and-close | whether to distinguish canceling and closing the MessageBox | boolean | — | false | | lock-scroll | whether to lock body scroll when MessageBox prompts | boolean | — | true | | show-cancel-button | whether to show a cancel button | boolean | — | false (true when called with confirm and prompt) | | show-confirm-button | whether to show a confirm button | boolean | — | true | | cancel-button-text | text content of cancel button | string | — | Cancel | | confirm-button-text | text content of confirm button | string | — | OK | | cancel-button-class | custom class name of cancel button | string | — | — | | confirm-button-class | custom class name of confirm button | string | — | — | | close-on-click-modal | whether MessageBox can be closed by clicking the mask | boolean | — | true (false when called with alert) | | close-on-press-escape | whether MessageBox can be closed by pressing the ESC | boolean | — | true (false when called with alert) | | close-on-hash-change | whether to close MessageBox when hash changes | boolean | — | true | | show-input | whether to show an input | boolean | — | false (true when called with prompt) | | input-placeholder | placeholder of input | string | — | — | | input-type | type of input | string | — | text | | input-value | initial value of input | string | — | — | | input-pattern | regexp for the input | regexp | — | — | | input-validator | validation function for the input. Should returns a boolean or string. If a string is returned, it will be assigned to inputErrorMessage | function | — | — | | input-error-message | error message when validation fails | string | — | Illegal input | | center | whether to align the content in center | boolean | — | false | | round-button | whether to use round button | boolean | — | false | | button-size | custom size of confirm and cancel buttons | string | mini / small / medium / large | small |