alt Hacker NewsThis can be applied for a success (change the button to a green tick mark) or an unsuccessful action (change the button to a red x mark).
But what if you want to give details on why the action was unsuccessful? How do you show it near the button or change the button itself?
>How do you show it near the button?
What stops you from placing these details you want as near as is reasonable to a button? Alternatively, placing the details near or in some container for the data/entity/element that the button relates to?