Message Box

A set of modal boxes simulating system message box, mainly for alerting information, confirm operations and prompting messages.

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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.

Confirm

Confirm is used to ask users' confirmation.

Prompt

Prompt is used when user input is required.

Customization

Can be customized to show various content.

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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). In this case, you can add a unique key to VNode each time MessageBox opens: example.

Use HTML String

message supports HTML string.

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. 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.

Centered content

Content of MessageBox can be centered.

Draggable

MessageBox can be draggable.

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:

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
draggable	whether MessageBox is draggable	boolean	—	false
round-button	whether to use round button	boolean	—	false
button-size	custom size of confirm and cancel buttons	string	small / default / large	default

Message

Notification

Message Box #

Alert #

Confirm #

Prompt #

Customization #

Use HTML String #

Distinguishing cancel and close #

Centered content #

Draggable #

Global method #

Local import #

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