GitLab can display messages to all users of a GitLab instance in a banner that appears in the UI.
GitLab can display broadcast messages to all users of a GitLab instance. There are two types of broadcast messages:
![Broadcast Message](img/broadcast_messages.png)
- banners
- notifications
You can style a message's content using the `a` and `br` HTML tags. The `br` tag inserts a line break. The `a` HTML tag accepts `class` and `style` attributes with the following CSS properties:
Notifications are shown on the bottom right of a page and can contain placeholders. A placeholder is replaced with an attribute of the active user. Placeholders must be surrounded by curly braces, for example `{{name}}`.
The available placeholders are:
-`{{email}}`
-`{{name}}`
-`{{user_id}}`
-`{{username}}`
-`{{instance_id}}`
If the user is not signed in, user related values will be empty.