# Alert
Alerts provide a simple way to communicate information to a user.
## Simple Alerts
Alerts have four different severities and can include text or other content.
```
New-UDAlert -Severity 'error' -Text 'This is an error alert — check it out!'
New-UDAlert -Severity 'warning' -Text 'This is an warning alert — check it out!'
New-UDAlert -Severity 'info' -Text 'This is an error info — check it out!'
New-UDAlert -Severity 'success' -Text 'This is an success alert — check it out!'
```
## Advanced Alerts
Alerts can contain any component and also a title.
```
New-UDAlert -Severity 'error' -Content { New-UDHtml 'This is an error alert — check it out!' } -Title "Error"
New-UDAlert -Severity 'warning' -Content { New-UDHtml 'This is an warning alert — check it out!' } -Title "Warning"
New-UDAlert -Severity 'info' -Content { New-UDHtml 'This is an error info — check it out!' } -Title "Info"
New-UDAlert -Severity 'success' -Content { New-UDHtml 'This is an success alert — check it out!' } -Title "Success"
```
## API
[New-UDAlert](https://github.com/ironmansoftware/universal-docs/blob/v5/cmdlets/New-UDAlert.txt)
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