UIDex

What is the difference?

Toast vs Modal Dialog

The difference is who owns the decision. A toast tells you something already happened and then leaves; a modal stops everything until you decide. One is transient and non-blocking, the other is persistent and blocking.

Ask yourself one question

If the user never saw this message, would anything break?

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Toast

الإشعار العائم
role="status"

Use it when

Confirming an action that succeeded, announcing a background event, or offering an optional undo for a few seconds. The user keeps working without interruption.

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Modal Dialog

النافذة الحوارية
role="dialog" aria-modal="true"

Use it when

A decision that cannot be skipped: confirming a deletion, accepting terms, or supplying missing data before continuing. The task cannot complete without it.

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The classic mistake

Delivering a critical error as a toast. The user was looking at another part of the screen, the message expired, and they never learned the operation failed.

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