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AlertDialog

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Confirmation overlay for destructive / irreversible actions — friction proportional to consequence.

import { AlertDialog } from "@elabs-ai/components-ui";
Install
npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui

Skipping the @source line is the most common first failure: Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so every component renders unstyled. The one-time wiring

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Add the brand-ui AlertDialog component (from @elabs-ai/components-ui) to this project.

1. Read https://elabs-ai.com/llms.txt first: it maps every package and the rules. If you can use MCP servers, connect https://elabs-ai.com/mcp and use its search, docs and tokens tools. If not, run the same lookups in the terminal: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli search "<what you need>"` and `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs <Component>`.
2. Look AlertDialog up before writing code: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs AlertDialog` prints its real props, variants, what it pairs with and what to avoid.
3. If @elabs-ai/components-ui is not installed yet: `pnpm add @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui` (or `npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui`). If this is the first brand-ui package in the project, wire it once: import `@elabs-ai/components-tokens/styles.css` plus the `themes/light.css` and `themes/dark.css` stylesheets in the CSS entry, add one Tailwind `@source` line per installed @elabs-ai package (Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so without it everything renders unstyled), and wrap the app root in `ThemeProvider` from `@elabs-ai/components-tokens`.
4. Use it here: [the screen or file, and what it should show]
5. Rules: use only @elabs-ai/components-* components and the semantic tokens — no raw colours, no raw font sizes, no arbitrary Tailwind values. Look up each component's real props with the docs tool before you use it; never guess a prop.
6. Done means: the typecheck passes, `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli audit src --strict` reports nothing, and you have opened the app and looked at every screen you touched in the light and the dark theme.

Avoid

  • Firing the destructive action immediately on click — require the AlertDialog confirm (or an undo window).
  • Making the destructive action the default-focused button — focus the Cancel/safe action first.

Works with

Contains

  • AlertDialogContent
  • AlertDialogTitle
  • AlertDialogAction
  • AlertDialogCancel

Pairs with

API

AlertDialogAction

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof AlertDialogPrimitive.Action>

AlertDialogCancel

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof AlertDialogPrimitive.Cancel>

AlertDialogContent

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof AlertDialogPrimitive.Content>

AlertDialogDescription

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof AlertDialogPrimitive.Description>

AlertDialogTitle

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof AlertDialogPrimitive.Title>

Theming

The tokens each state resolves to. Change the token and every theme follows.

StateToken
overlayAlertDialogOverlay: bg-overlay + backdrop-blur-overlay
surfaceAlertDialogContent: bg-card text-card-foreground + shadow-ring-lg (ADR 0020 — the hairline is the shadow's last layer, so there is no border)
focusfocus-ring — the compound indicator: a ring-2 in --ring plus a 1px --ring-contour outline (#67) — inherited: Action/Cancel are buttonVariants