It's controlled with CSS in the web2py.css file. Look for "div.flash".
With the new bootstrap support, I put this in my layout.html:
{{if response.flash:}}
<div class="alert">
<button class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
{{=response.flash}}
</div>
{{pass}}
Right below: <div class="container">
On Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:46:06 PM UTC-7, Janath wrote:
>
> How can I change the location of response.flash. It overlaps with my menu
> items...
>
> Thank you,
> Janath
>
> On Thursday, November 5, 2009 1:16:41 PM UTC-6, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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>> On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote:
>>
>> Instead of putting a timer on response.flash, I moved its location to
>> another location on the site that does conflict with any text.
>>
>>
>> I like Gmail's approach to flash messages. They're not obtrusive, but
>> they're still prominent enough to be noticed. And because they're
>> relatively small, Google can reserve a portion of the page for them (which
>> is otherwise white space), with the result that showing a flash message
>> doesn't obscure other content, nor does it change the page layout.
>>
>> When I first registered at web2pyslices, I found the fade-out flash
>> somewhat unhelpful, in that I didn't notice it until it was too late.
>>
>> OTOH, web2pyslices has a dedicated area in the UI header for the flash
>> message, which is nice.
>>
>> Another thing I'd look at is to use color in the flash messages to
>> indicate the message category. Notices of failed operations should look
>> different from the routine "welcome back" message, IMO.
>>
>>
>> -Thadeus
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sebastian Brandt <snoogi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thnaks Russel for pointing that out. I think this is very nice.
>>> Of course the message will be unread if the user is distracted, but
>>> after the message is generated after user input in most cases I guess,
>>> that should be no problem in my opinion.
>>>
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>> On 5 Nov., 05:43, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>>> > The problem with that is that if the user is distracted, the message
>>> > fades out before he/she can read it.
>>> >
>>> > On Nov 4, 4:48 pm, Russell <russell.mcmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Hi there,
>>> >
>>> > > A mild annoyance: Sometimes the response flash covers other text on
>>> > > the screen and, when you are doing lots of testing, you are
>>> > > continually clicking it to make it go away.
>>> >
>>> > > My suggestion is to replace web2py_ajax.html line 36:
>>> >
>>> > > jQuery('.flash').click(function() { jQuery(this).fadeOut('slow');
>>> > > return false; });
>>> >
>>> > > with:
>>> >
>>> > > jQuery('.flash').hide().fadeIn(2000).animate({opacity: 1.0},
>>> > > 2000).animate({ opacity: 'hide' }, 2000);
>>> >
>>> > > This makes the response.flash fade in and then fade out. No clicking
>>> > > required.
>>> >
>>> > > Thanks
>>> > > Russell
>>>
>>>
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