Empty prompt

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The EuiEmptyPrompt is the building block to create an empty state. You can use it as a placeholder for any type of empty content. They are especially helpful for replacing entire pages or parts of a product that contain no content.

Be sure to read the full empty prompt usage guidelines.

While no one piece of content is required, each EuiEmptyPrompt should contain at least a title (wrapped in an HTML heading element) and/or a description. They usually contain one or more actions that promotes the primary call-to-actions. You can also provide a footer to direct users towards making informed decisions.

Less content, more actions

You can remove parts of the prompt to simplify it. You can also provide an array of multiple actions. Be sure to list primary actions first and secondary actions as empty buttons.

Panel options

The EuiEmptyPrompt is wrapped by EuiPanel. By default, the panel is set to transparent but you can customize other panel options like color, hasBorder and paddingSize. Changing the color prop will also attempt to adjust the iconColor and footer color.

Read the usage guidelines to better understand when to use certain panel props.

Title sizes and icon colors

Other customization options include changing the titleSize to any of the EuiTitle sizes and iconColor. When using an application or solution logo as the iconType, you can reset to the multi-tone colors with iconColor="default"

Loading and error prompts

Empty prompts can also be used to emulate loading and error states, by utilizing the same patterns.

For loading states, instead of passing a iconType, you can provide a custom icon and pass in one of our loading components.

For error states, you can simply set the color to danger.

Layout

You can supply a layout of either "horizontal" or "vertical" with the default being vertical. When creating empty states we want the content to be short and straight to the point. So most of the time, the vertical layout is enough. All the content will be center aligned and this type of text alignment only works with small content.

When you have longer body text with multiple calls to action, you can use the horizontal layout. This layout works best when you can provide a larger graphic like an illustration as the icon. For consistency, we recommend providing the illustration using a EuiImage with size="fullWidth".

More types of empty states

EuiEmptyPrompt can be used for more than just empty pages. The following example showcases different types of empty states that you can create with the EuiEmptyPrompt. For a full list see the usage guidelines.

Using in a page template

When using a EuiEmptyPrompt in a EuiPageTemplate, we recommend using the namespaced component so the template can determine which how to display the empty prompt based on the rest of the template configuration.

The following example shows the usage of the EuiPageTemplate.EmptyPrompt namespaced component.

You can then tie multiple types of empty states together to create a seamless loading to empty or loading to error experience. The following example shows how to incorporate these states with EuiPageTemplate.EmptyPrompt.