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Initial prototype of a `<toolbar>` element is coming along. Largely piggybacks off the focusgroup code so it's actually quite simple to do. Lots to discuss and tweak before it's finished but got to start somewhere.

Josh Tumath

@joshtumath.uk

7 Mar

Nice! When I read the proposal for focusgroup, I was thinking that they all sounded like they should be HTML elements!

Luke

@lukewarlow.dev

Yup, menu(list) and menubar are being worked on too. So I think with those 3 it's just tablist left to go! But they all have varying levels of complexity beyond just what focusgroup provides (admittedly toolbar itself is quite simple).

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Manuel Matuzović

@matuzo.at

8 Mar

Will the existing menu be adapted?

Luke

@lukewarlow.dev

8 Mar

No, the proposal is for a new menulist and menubar element, for compat reasons the old one is probably best left alone. open-ui.org/components/m...

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Josh Tumath

@joshtumath.uk

8 Mar

That's cool. I need to look into the proposals. For tablist, I imagine you'd want to go all in and provide a proper hide and reveal behaviour when switching between tabs.

Luke

@lukewarlow.dev

8 Mar

Yeah exactly. I don't think it's actually super complex to do, but there's a lot of "tabs" in the wild that aren't actually tabs (in the aria sense) and one historical point of contention has been how do we stop people using tabs for the wrong thing.