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Alert Blocks

An alert block is a simple container to add some color to draw attention to its content. Alert blocks support both inline and block markdown formatting inside of it. Use three colons ::: to open and close an alert block. Optionally, include one of the following alert types in the opener to choose the specific style of the block: vanilla, primary, secondary, success, danger|error, warning, info, light, dark

Use three colons to open and close an alert. The opening colons support either an alert style name (See Styles below) or a JSON configuration object on the same line directly following the colons. The following options are supported:

:::primary
This is a primary alert block
:::

Use a JSON object to specify options:

:::{"alert":"danger","title":"Dangerous Text"}
This text is **dangerous**.
:::