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A Toast is a subtle notification commonly used in modern applications. It can be used to provide feedback about an operation or to display a system message. The toast appears on top of the app's content, and can be dismissed by the app to resume user interaction with the app.
Toasts can be positioned at the top, bottom or middle of the viewport. The position can be passed upon creation. The possible values are top
, bottom
and middle
. If the position is not specified, the toast will be displayed at the bottom of the viewport.
When using Ionic with React or Vue, ion-toast
can also be placed directly in the template through use of the isOpen
property. Note that isOpen
must be set to false
manually when the toast is dismissed; it will not be updated automatically.
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { IonButton, IonToast } from '@ionic/react';
function Example() {
const [showToast, setShowToast] = useState(false);
return (
<>
<IonButton onClick={() => setShowToast(true)}>Show Toast</IonButton>
<IonToast isOpen={showToast} onDidDismiss={() => setShowToast(false)} message="Hello World!" duration={1500} />
</>
);
}
<template>
<ion-button @click="setOpen(true)">Show Toast</ion-button>
<ion-toast :is-open="isOpenRef" @didDismiss="setOpen(false)" message="Hello World!" :duration="1500"></ion-toast>
</template>
<script lang="ts">
import { IonButton, IonToast } from '@ionic/vue';
import { defineComponent, ref } from 'vue';
export default defineComponent({
components: { IonButton, IonToast },
setup() {
const isOpenRef = ref(false);
const setOpen = (state: boolean) => (isOpenRef.value = state);
return { isOpenRef, setOpen };
},
});
</script>
Toasts are intended to be subtle notifications and should not interrupt the user. As a result, user interaction should not be required to dismiss the toast.
The toast can be dismissed automatically after a specific amount of time by passing the number of milliseconds to display it in the duration
of the toast options. If a button with a role of "cancel"
is added, then that button will dismiss the toast. To dismiss the toast after creation, call the dismiss()
method on the instance.
Pressing the hardware back button does not dismiss toasts since they are not supposed to interrupt the user.
The following example demonstrates how to use the buttons
property to add a button that automatically dismisses the toast when clicked, as well as how to collect the role
of the dismiss event.
Button containers within the toast can be displayed either on the same line as the message or stacked on separate lines using the layout
property. The stacked layout should be used with buttons that have long text values. Additionally, buttons in a stacked toast layout can use a side
value of either start
or end
, but not both.
An icon can be added next to the content inside of the toast. In general, icons in toasts should be used to add additional style or context, not to grab the user's attention or elevate the priority of the toast. If you wish to convey a higher priority message to the user or guarantee a response, we recommend using an Alert instead.
interface ToastButton {
text?: string;
icon?: string;
side?: 'start' | 'end';
role?: 'cancel' | string;
cssClass?: string | string[];
handler?: () => boolean | void | Promise<boolean | void>;
}
interface ToastOptions {
header?: string;
message?: string | IonicSafeString;
cssClass?: string | string[];
duration?: number;
buttons?: (ToastButton | string)[];
position?: 'top' | 'bottom' | 'middle';
translucent?: boolean;
animated?: boolean;
icon?: string;
htmlAttributes?: { [key: string]: any };
color?: Color;
mode?: Mode;
keyboardClose?: boolean;
id?: string;
enterAnimation?: AnimationBuilder;
leaveAnimation?: AnimationBuilder;
}
Toasts are intended to be subtle notifications and are not intended to interrupt the user. User interaction should not be required to dismiss the toast. As a result, focus is not automatically moved to a toast when one is presented.
ion-toast
has aria-live="polite"
and aria-atomic="true"
set by default.
aria-live
causes screen readers to announce the content of the toast when it is updated. However, since the attribute is set to 'polite'
, screen readers generally do not interrupt the current task. Developers can customize this behavior by using the htmlAttributes
property to set aria-live
to 'assertive'
. This will cause screen readers to immediately notify the user when a toast is updated, potentially interrupting any previous updates.
aria-atomic="true"
is set to ensure that the entire toast is announced as a single unit. This is useful when dynamically updating the content of the toast as it prevents screen readers from announcing only the content that has changed.
While this is not a complete list, here are some guidelines to follow when using toasts.
-
Do not require user interaction to dismiss toasts. For example, having a "Dismiss" button in the toast is fine, but the toast should also automatically dismiss on its own after a timeout period. If you need user interaction for a notification, consider using ion-alert instead.
-
Avoid opening multiple toasts in quick succession. If aria-live
is set to 'assertive'
, screen readers may interrupt the reading of the current task to announce the new toast, causing the context of the previous toast to be lost.
-
For toasts with long messages, consider adjusting the duration
property to allow users enough time to read the content of the toast.
Description | If true , the toast will animate. |
Attribute | animated |
Type | boolean |
Default | true |
Description | An array of buttons for the toast. |
Attribute | undefined |
Type | (string | ToastButton)[] | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | The color to use from your application's color palette. Default options are: "primary" , "secondary" , "tertiary" , "success" , "warning" , "danger" , "light" , "medium" , and "dark" . For more information on colors, see theming. |
Attribute | color |
Type | "danger" | "dark" | "light" | "medium" | "primary" | "secondary" | "success" | "tertiary" | "warning" | string | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | Additional classes to apply for custom CSS. If multiple classes are provided they should be separated by spaces. |
Attribute | css-class |
Type | string | string[] | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | How many milliseconds to wait before hiding the toast. By default, it will show until dismiss() is called. |
Attribute | duration |
Type | number |
Default | config.getNumber('toastDuration', 0) |
Description | Animation to use when the toast is presented. |
Attribute | undefined |
Type | ((baseEl: any, opts?: any) => Animation) | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | Header to be shown in the toast. |
Attribute | header |
Type | string | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | Additional attributes to pass to the toast. |
Attribute | undefined |
Type | undefined | { [key: string]: any; } |
Default | undefined |
Description | The name of the icon to display, or the path to a valid SVG file. See ion-icon . https://ionic.io/ionicons |
Attribute | icon |
Type | string | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | If true , the keyboard will be automatically dismissed when the overlay is presented. |
Attribute | keyboard-close |
Type | boolean |
Default | false |
Description | Defines how the message and buttons are laid out in the toast. 'baseline': The message and the buttons will appear on the same line. Message text may wrap within the message container. 'stacked': The buttons containers and message will stack on top of each other. Use this if you have long text in your buttons. |
Attribute | layout |
Type | "baseline" | "stacked" |
Default | 'baseline' |
Description | Animation to use when the toast is dismissed. |
Attribute | undefined |
Type | ((baseEl: any, opts?: any) => Animation) | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | Message to be shown in the toast. This property accepts custom HTML as a string. Developers who only want to pass plain text can disable the custom HTML functionality by setting innerHTMLTemplatesEnabled: false in the Ionic config. |
Attribute | message |
Type | IonicSafeString | string | undefined |
Default | undefined |
Description | The mode determines which platform styles to use. |
Attribute | mode |
Type | "ios" | "md" |
Default | undefined |
Description | The position of the toast on the screen. |
Attribute | position |
Type | "bottom" | "middle" | "top" |
Default | 'bottom' |
Description | If true , the toast will be translucent. Only applies when the mode is "ios" and the device supports backdrop-filter . |
Attribute | translucent |
Type | boolean |
Default | false |
Name | Description | Bubbles |
---|
ionToastDidDismiss | Emitted after the toast has dismissed. | true |
ionToastDidPresent | Emitted after the toast has presented. | true |
ionToastWillDismiss | Emitted before the toast has dismissed. | true |
ionToastWillPresent | Emitted before the toast has presented. | true |
Description | Dismiss the toast overlay after it has been presented. |
Signature | dismiss(data?: any, role?: string) => Promise<boolean> |
Description | Returns a promise that resolves when the toast did dismiss. |
Signature | onDidDismiss<T = any>() => Promise<OverlayEventDetail<T>> |
Description | Returns a promise that resolves when the toast will dismiss. |
Signature | onWillDismiss<T = any>() => Promise<OverlayEventDetail<T>> |
Description | Present the toast overlay after it has been created. |
Signature | present() => Promise<void> |