# Alert
An Alert is a banner used to notify a user about a change in status or communicate other information. It can be generated with or without a user triggering an action first.

## Usage
An alert is used by wrapping html elements with an `rh-alert` element as slots in order to format the data in the desired manner.  

An alert consists of the following slots:

`Header`
- Header text for the alert, appears at the top of the alert. 

`Actions`
- Buttons that can be used to perform an action from the alert, such as closing or accepting the alert.

`Anonymous Slot`
- This is the text that is inserted into the state to be displayed in the main content body. 

An alert consists of the following attributes:

`dismissable`
- The `dismissable` attribute adds a close button to the top right of the alert allowing the user to dismiss the alert. Clicking the close button dispatches a `close` event, then removes the alert from the page.

An alert has the following events:

`close`
- This is fired when the user clicks the close button enabled by the `dismissable` attribute. Cancelling the event prevents the alert from closing.

##  Installation

If using npm/bundlers:
```bash
npm install @rhds/elements
```

Then once installed, import it to your application:

```js
import '@rhds/elements/rh-alert/rh-alert.js';
```
## Usage

### Basic Alert

```html
<rh-alert>
  <h3 slot="header">Default</h3>
  <p>Example Alert</p>
  <rh-button variant="secondary" slot="actions" data-action="dismiss">Dismiss</rh-button>
  <rh-button variant="link" slot="actions" data-action="confirm">Confirm</rh-button>
</rh-alert>
```

### Info Alert (also available `success`, `warning`, `danger`, and `error`)

```html
<rh-alert state="info">
  <h3 slot="header">Info</h3>
  <p>Example Alert</p>
  <rh-button variant="secondary" slot="actions" data-action="dismiss">Dismiss</rh-button>
  <rh-button variant="link" slot="actions" data-action="confirm">Confirm</rh-button>
</rh-alert>
```

### Inline Alert
```html
<rh-alert variant="inline">
  <h3 slot="header">Default</h3>
  <p>Example Alert</p>
  <rh-button variant="secondary" slot="actions" data-action="dismiss">Dismiss</rh-button>
  <rh-button variant="link" slot="actions" data-action="confirm">Confirm</rh-button>
</rh-alert>
```

### Toast Alert

Alerts may be toasted using the `toast()` function. A toasted alert has a
unique style, a drop shadow, and either disappears after eight seconds, or can persist until the user dismisses it.

```js
import { RhAlert } from '@rhds/elements/rh-alert/rh-alert.js';

await RhAlert.toast({
  heading: 'Toast alert',
  message: 'Example toasted alert',
  actions: [
    { variant: 'secondary', action: 'confirm', text: 'Confirm' },
    { action: 'dismiss', text: 'Dismiss' }
  ],
});
```

You can respond to the various actions by listening for the `close` event

```js
document.addEventListener('close', function(event) {
  if (event.target instanceof RhAlert) {
    switch (event.reason) {
      case 'close': // handle alert close ("X" button)
      case 'dismiss': // handle alert dismiss (data-action="dismiss")
      case 'confirm': // handle alert confirm (data-action="confirm")
    }
  }
})
```

### Adding an Event Listener to a Basic Alert

If you would like to add custom logic when the alert is closed, you can do so with JavaScript. 
```js
  // Query for the alert element
  const alert = document.querySelector('rh-alert');
  alert.addEventListener('close', () => {
    // Add code to be executed when the alert element is closed.
  });
```

### Preventing the default close behavior in a Basic Alert
```js
  // Query for the alert element
  const alert = document.querySelector('rh-alert');
  alert.addEventListener('close', function () {
    // Prevent the alert from closing
    event.preventDefault();
    // Perform some async task
    await alertClosed();
    // Close the alert when finished
    this.remove();
  });
```