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Concept cluster
Compare a transient update, a persistent in-context message, and a page-wide announcement.
Is the message transient, persistent in context, or global to the page?
Try it
Compare all three behaviors
Shared comparison scenario: A workspace reports a state change and must place the message according to its scope, urgency, and persistence.
This context stays fixed. Switch concepts to observe the mission, edge case, and specimen specific to each behavior.
Toast
Toast is transient and detached from the source; Inline alert stays beside the relevant content, while Banner communicates a broad page-level message.
Your task
Copy the link, hear or read the confirmation, focus Dismiss, and verify the timer pauses.
Edge case to verify
Queued messages remain individually readable, and an available action is never covered by another toast.
Mission
Copy the link, hear or read the confirmation, focus Dismiss, and verify the timer pauses.
Select a numbered marker on the schematic, or use the list below, to see its role. The schematic shows the concept's representative state.
Surface
The visible container that holds the concept's content.
These descriptions fit every concept in the cluster, so none of them is enough to decide.