You should be able to use id="blabla" or name="foo" on our components.  If you need a reference to the component you can use @ref. What are you trying to accomplish?   

ID didn't seem to work as I got compile errors. I'll see if @ref works.
I was trying to reference the alert control to change the text depending on the information I wanted to relay to the user. There are 4 different success states each needed a different alert message. I didn't want to have to go and build 4 different versions of the control just to change the text. And no, I really don't want to do a binding for something simple and on the fly.

the alert might not yet have the @attributes splatting enabled yet. please open an issue on Github at https://github.com/Garderoben/MudBlazor under issues, with a simple showcase of how you want to use the alert. we'll make the changes to make the alert more usable, no problem.