IconButton

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Installation

Yarn

yarn add @leafygreen-ui/icon-button

NPM

npm install @leafygreen-ui/icon-button

Example

import EllipsisIcon from '@leafygreen-ui/icon/dist/Ellipsis';
import IconButton from '@leafygreen-ui/icon-button';

<IconButton darkMode={true} aria-label="Some Menu">
  <EllipsisIcon />
</IconButton>;

Output HTML

<button aria-disabled="false" class="leafygreen-ui-194rp0y" aria-label="Some Menu>
  <div class="leafygreen-ui-1rvdyoi">
    <svg width="16px" height="16px" viewBox="0 0 16 16" version="1.1">
      <g
        id="Ellipsis-Copy"
        stroke="none"
        stroke-width="1"
        fill="none"
        fill-rule="evenodd"
      >
        <path fill="#89989B"></path>
      </g>
    </svg>
  </div>
</button>

Properties

Prop	Type	Description	Default
darkMode	boolean	Determines whether or not the IconButton will appear in darkMode.	false
onClick	function	The event handler function for the 'onclick' event. Receives the associated event object as the first argument.
disabled	boolean	Disables the <IconButton />	false
href	string	If a href is supplied, the component renders inside of an a tag instead of inside of a button tag.
className	string	Adds a className to the class attribute on the container element.
children	node	Content rendered inside of the <IconButton /> component
size	'default', 'large', 'xlarge'	Determines the size of the IconButton	'default'
active	boolean	Determines whether the <IconButton /> will appear active	false
aria-label or aria-labelledby	string	One of these must be provided. See note below
...	native anchor or button attributes	Any other properties will be spread on the rendered HTML element or component.

Special Case: Aria Labels

Either aria-label or aria-labelledby must be provided a string, or there will be a console error. This is to ensure that screenreaders have a description for what the button does, since the button itself doesn't contain any text.

Any other properties will be spread on the container element.