Display your notice inside an html element like this.

Then style the element with css how ever you like.

notice {

font-weight: bold; }

Or use something like "Stickies":http://software.pmade.com/stickies.

No, that's View code. It's largely frowned upon to put any view code in the controller. However, you will want to set the flash value in the controller.

I have to second Chris Barnes and recommend you use a CSS style to control the appearance of the tag.

yes, my mistake what i mean is flash declared as instance variable already deprecated. Others can be referred here :http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation :)

application.rhtml:

       
      
      
       "flash_"+type.to_s) -%> 
                 
    

stylesheet.css:

#flash_error {
    border: 2px solid #8B0000;
    padding:10px;
    background-color:#CD5C5C;
    color:gold;
    font-weight:bold;
}

#flash_notice {
    border: 1px solid green;    
    padding:10px;    
    background-color:#3CB371;
    color:#FFFF00;
    font-weight:bold;
}

:)