Widget: announcement

What you can build with it

A holiday closure or a change of hours on the home page. A seasonal offer with its end date. A new location or a new service, dated. A dark tile in a light section, or the reverse.

Props

caption (text); title (text); body (text); date (text, as shown, optional) and datetime (ISO); linkLabel and linkHref (optional); tone (select: light, dark); size (select: medium, small)

States shown

Rest; the link's hover, focus and press; dark tone stays dark in both schemes; small; a long headline wraps. Nothing moves under reduced motion.

How to change it

Content and options are 9 props in the component's settings panel. Colour, type, spacing and radius follow your Automatic.css settings, so a change to the site's palette or scale changes this too. For anything else, edit the classes in the Style Manager, starting with .widget, .widget-notice.

ACSS tokens used

space-s, space-xs, text-s, text-m, radius, primary-dark, primary-light, text-dark, text-dark-muted, text-light, text-light-muted, neutral-ultra-dark, white, black, box-shadow-1, focus tokens; –ep-font-mono with a fallback.

ACSS requirements

ACSS 4 defaults. Nothing to switch on. Place it under a section heading: its title is an H3.

Version history

Version 1.0.0, September 30, 2026: First release, part of the widget family built under the component-systems contract.

Tested with

Etch 1.6.7 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.0.