Toastr Notifications To Your Web Site

Madan Bhintade
Jan 18, 2016
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In my recent MEAN stack project, I wanted to notify end user based on events. While researching further on this, I came across toastr.js. This library, I found to be very simple and easy to use. Importantly in today’s world of responsive sites, these notification are also responsive.

How to use toastr in short

Add a reference to toastr.js from CDN or from downloaded package.
Add a link to toastr.css and toastr-responsive.css to HTML page.
In JavaScript, to generate toastr notification use below command,

toastr.success('Welcome to toastr notifications!', 'Toastr Notification').

This will show the following toastr notification on your html page,

While displaying these notifications, toastr library provides us various options e.g. Toastr Type as Success, Warning, Info, Error etc. And positions can also be decided in a simplistic manner. You can refer detailed toastr options at toastr.js.
Refer the following section for demonstration of toastr types and positions.

JSFiddle based sample code

If you want to just play with sample implementation, JSFiddle based implementation can be seen here.

Detailed Code Implementation goes as below,

Create html page, toastrsample.html and copy paste below code to it.
1. <!DOCTYPE html>
2. <html>
4. <head>
5. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
7. <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js">
8. </script>
10. <scripttype="text/javascript" src="http://codeseven.github.com/toastr/toastr.js">
11. </script>
13. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://codeseven.github.com/toastr/toastr.css">
14. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://codeseven.github.com/toastr/toastr-responsive.css">
16. <script type="text/javascript" src="toastrsample.js">
17. </script>
19. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="toastrsample.css">
20. <title>How to Use Toastr</title>
21. </head>
23. <body>
24. <h2>
25. How to Use Toastr Notifications</h2>
26. <div class="control-group" id="toastrTypeGroup">
27. <div class="controls">
28. <label>
29. Toast Type</label>
30. <label class="radio">
31. <input type="radio" name="toasts" value="success" checked/>Success
32. </label>
33. <label class="radio">
34. <input type="radio" name="toasts" value="info" />Info
35. </label>
36. <label class="radio">
37. <input type="radio" name="toasts" value="warning" />Warning
38. </label>
39. <label class="radio">
40. <input type="radio" name="toasts" value="error" />Error
41. </label>
42. </div>
43. </div>
44. <br/>
45. <div class="control-group" id="toastrPositionGroup">
46. <div class="controls">
47. <label>
48. Position</label>
49. <label class="radio">
50. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-top-right" checked/>Top Right
51. </label>
52. <label class="radio">
53. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-bottom-right" />Bottom Right
54. </label>
55. <label class="radio">
56. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-bottom-left" />Bottom Left
57. </label>
58. <label class="radio">
59. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-top-left" />Top Left
60. </label>
61. <label class="radio">
62. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-top-full-width" />Top Full Width
63. </label>
64. <label class="radio">
65. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-bottom-full-width" />Bottom Full Width
66. </label>
67. <label class="radio">
68. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-top-center" />Top Center
69. </label>
70. <label class="radio">
71. <input type="radio" name="positions" value="toast-bottom-center" />Bottom Center
72. </label>
73. </div>
74. </div>
76. <br/>
77. <button type="button" class="btn" id="showtoast">
78. Show Toastr Notification</button>
79. </body>
81. </html>
Create JavaScript file (toastrsample.js) and add the following code,
1. $(function()
2. {
3. $('#showtoast').click(function()
4. {
5. toastr.options =
6. {
7. "debug": false,
8. "positionClass": $("#toastrPositionGroup input:radio:checked").val(),
9. "onclick": null,
10. "fadeIn": 300,
11. "fadeOut": 100,
12. "timeOut": 3000,
13. "extendedTimeOut": 1000
14. }
16. var d = Date();
17. toastr[$("#toastrTypeGroup input:radio:checked").val()](d, "Current Day & Time");
18. });
19. });
Create Stylesheet file (toastrsample.css) and add the following code,
1. body
2. {
3. font - family: Verdana;
4. font - size: small;
5. }
After running the code and on click of button ‘Show Toastr Notification’, you should see toastr notifications appearing based on Toastr Type and Position you choose.

Refer the following screenshot for the same,