Standard Joomla XML field type - Note

Joomla XML field type – Note works in Joomla versions: 3.1 and higher.

Standard field type Joomla XML – Note allows you to display titles, descriptions, or warning boxes. With the help of headers in the form, you can clean up the order.

This field supports attributes:

name - system name of the field (field identifier).
type - field type, in this case «note».
label - the displayed field name.
description - displayed field description. In Joomla 3 it is displayed as a tooltip when hovering over the field name.
class - CSS field classes applied.
heading - the type of header element to be used for the label. The default is h4.
close - can be true or false. If true, a cross will be enabled in the notification window to close the notification.

This type of field has several display options, below we will consider each.

Option 1: Title and Description

An example of displaying the Note field type (option title and description) in the Joomla 3 admin panel:

Example of Note field type display (title and description option) in Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 admin panel:

The Note field code (title type and description) from the image in the XML document looks like this:

				
					<field
       name="mytext"
       type="note"
       label="Field Title" 
       description="Field description" />

Option 2: Warning

This option uses slightly different code in Joomla 3 and Joomla 4 with Joomla 5.

An example of displaying the Note field type (option with a warning) in the Joomla 3 admin panel:

The Note field code (warning type) from the image in the Joomla 3 XML document looks like this:

				
					<field
       name="mytext"
       type="note"
       class="alert"
       label="Field Title" 
       description="Field description" />

Example of Note field type display (warning option) in Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 admin panel:

The code for the Note field (warning type) from an image in a Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 XML document looks like this:

				
					<field
       name="mytext"
       type="note"
       class="alert alert-warning"
       label="Field Title"
       description="Field description" />

Option 3: Informing

An example of displaying the Note field type (option with information) in the Joomla 3 admin panel:

Example of displaying Note field type (option with informing) in Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 admin panel:

The Note field code (type informing) from the image in the Joomla XML document looks like this:

				
					<field
       name="mytext"
       type="note"
       class="alert alert-info"
       label="Field Title"
       description="Field description" />

Option 4: Successful notification

An example of displaying the Note field type (option with successful notification) in the Joomla 3 admin panel:

Example of Note field type display (successful notification option) in Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 admin panel:

The Note field code (type with successful notification) from the image in the Joomla XML document looks like this:

				
					<field
       name="mytext"
       type="note"
       class="alert alert-success"
       label="Field Title"
       description="Field description" />

Option 5: Error

An example of displaying the Note field type (variant with an error) in the Joomla 3 admin panel:

Example of Note field type display (error variant) in Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 admin panel:

The Note field code (error type) from the image in the Joomla XML document looks like this:

				
					<field
       name="mytext"
       type="note"
       class="alert alert-error"
       label="Field Title"
       description="Field description" />

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Standard Joomla XML field type – Note