Able to remove popup on click

src/app.rb

@@ -173,8 +173,13 @@ post "/auctions" do
 	
 	newid, resp = Auction.create user_id, title, description, init_price, delta_time, category_choices
 
+	if newid then
 		flash[:success] = "Auction posted!"
 		redirect "/auctions/#{newid}"
+	else
+		flash[:error] = resp
+		redirect "/auctions/new"
+	end
 end
 
 get "/auctions/:id" do

src/db_models.rb

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ class Auction < EntityModel
 
 		# Validate the input
 		check, errorstr = self.validate_ah(title, description, init_price, delta_time)
-		return errorstr unless check
+		return check, errorstr unless check
 
 		# Get current UNIX time
 		start_time = Time.now.to_i 

src/views/layout.slim

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ html lang="en"
                 a.inlbutton href="/profile" target="_self" 
                   img.avatar src="#{session_user.avatar}" alt="Profile"
     .content-container
-      .flash
+      div class="flash" onclick="this.remove();"
         - flash.each do |k, v|
             div class="flash-#{k}"
               | #{v}

src/views/stylesheets/style.sass

@@ -142,12 +142,15 @@ a.button:hover
   background-color: $special_clr
 
 .flash
-  position: absolute
+  position: fixed
   text-align: center
-  top: 5rem
+  top: 4rem
+  left: .8rem
   font-size: 1rem
   font-weight: bold
   animation: flash .2s ease-in alternate
+  background: $bg_alt_clr
+  transition: .4s opacity 
 
   &-error
     color: $fg_error
@@ -161,6 +164,10 @@ a.button:hover
     border: $border_size solid $green_clr
     border-radius: $border_radius
 
+.flash:hover
+  cursor: pointer
+  opacity: .5
+
 img.avatar, img.avatar_big
   background: $bg_clr
   width: 2.25rem