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NCI Design System Site Alert

Documents site alerts for urgent sitewide information, standard and slim variants, emergency and info modifiers, optional close and expand behavior, top-of-page placement, and combining multiple messages into one alert.

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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports

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Site alert Choose site alert when urgent sitewide information must appear by default on every affected page near the top of the site. The site alert appears before ordinary page content and is reachable from any affected route, not just the home page. NCI documents site-alert standard, slim, emergency, info, close, and expand variants plus top-of-page placement and combining related messages.

Evidence Role

This source is treated as pattern-library evidence. Use it to validate the decision rules above, not as a visual style reference.

Publisher: National Cancer Institute Design System. Last checked: .