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React

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Web Component

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Style customization

The following CSS variables can be overridden to customize Badge components:

Guidance

When to use

• To draw attention to new, important content on a page that might otherwise be missed.
• To filter results with one or more tags.
• To indicate the number of new or unread items within a container. For example, to indicate the number of unread messages within a person’s inbox.

When to consider alternatives

• When users are likely to confuse a badge with a button. For example, when the badge appears in the same area of the page as buttons.
• To call attention to new or updated content, consider changing the background color of the object itself or experiment with changing the font weight.
• When users already expect content to be updated frequently. For example, on a site dedicated to breaking news. In this case placing the new content at the top may be enough.

Usage

• Don’t overdo it — if everything on a page is called out as important, nothing is important.
• Users may confuse badges as buttons. Always conduct usability testing to make sure your particular implementation is not causing frustration.
• Don’t mix interactive and static badges on your site. Once you establish a pattern for how badges behave, users will expect that behavior every time.

Accessibility

• When badges are used to call out new content that is dynamically loaded onto a page, be sure to use ARIA live regions

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  to alert screen readers of the change.

Future research

• Further usability testing should be done to ensure badges aren't being confused with buttons. Further iteration can be done with sizing and colors if there is confusion.

Component maturity