@bliss-design-system/avatar

<bliss-avatar>

<bliss-avatar> is a representation of a user account or user group (i.e. Human Resources). It displays either the initials of an entry or number and is purely text-based (no images or other assets).

In previous versions of Bliss CSS, this component was named User Circle.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Properties
  • Known limitations
• Contributing
  • Demoing with Storybook
  • Testing
  • Committing
  • Opening a merge request
• Troubleshooting

📦 Installation

To install this component, run:

yarn add @bliss-design-system/avatar

🏎 Usage

To use this component, you'll need to register the component to the window's Custom Elements Registry. In order to achieve that, you'll want to call this function within your application's client-facing entry file:

import { blissRegisterAvatar } from '@bliss-design-system/avatar';

blissRegisterAvatar(); // Registers <bliss-avatar>

That will make the component available in your application and you can use it like this:

<!-- Render an avatar with the default user variant displaying MM -->
<bliss-avatar content="Max Mustermann"></bliss-avatar>

You can also pass a number as the content value to automatically apply the more variant:

<!-- Render an avatar with the more variant displaying +3 -->
<bliss-avatar content="3"></bliss-avatar>

Properties

The component accepts the following properties:

Property	Type	Description	Default	Required	Options
content	String	Determines what is displayed in the avatar	""	true	-
variant	String	Applies a variant to the avatar component	user	false	user, user-group, more
compact	Boolean	Adds a border to the avatar without increasing the size	false	false	-
hasTooltip	Boolean	Removes the title attribute content when set to true	false	false	-

Known limitations

The avatar generates the displayed initials based on the text provided through the content attribute. It will do this by grabbing the first letter character from the first word and last word (if applicable). If one word is provided, only the first letter from that word will be displayed (i.e. a user group called Finance will display F).

The avatar will pass over and not show any numbers within the provided content (i.e. a user group called Human Resources 101 will display HR). If a number is included within a word, then it will display the first character regardless of if it's a number or letter (i.e. 2021Karen will display 2 and Karen2021 will display K).

If the value provided through the content attribute is a number, then the more variant will automatically be applied. This means that the avatar will display the provided number preceded by a + character (i.e. 8 will display +8).

🫕 Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please open an issue with your suggested change on our Proposal Board. Once that is accepted, either the Bliss team will work on it or you can make changes locally by doing the following:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://gitlab.com/bliss-design-system/components.git

# Move into the component toolkit
cd components/

# Install the dependencies
yarn

You don't need to move into the package's directory to run storybook, tests or anything else. All of those commands exist in the root of the component toolkit, so while you can work on the component within its specific folder, you don't need to move through directories to run anything.

Demoing with Storybook

You can see all of your changes as you make them on Storybook.

To run a local instance of Storybook for this component, run:

yarn storybook

Testing

If you want to test as you develop, run:

yarn test

// or

yarn test:watch

Committing

We follow the Conventional Commits specification, meaning that you'll be prompted to fill out a descriptive message when you commit. We also use these commits to manage our releases, so we appreciate details.

As a guideline for this component, we use:

• fix for bug fixes, minor stylistic improvements, etc.
• feat for any backward compatible API changes.

For anything that breaks backwards compatibility or introduces significant changes that require a major version change, please get in touch with the team.

Opening a merge request

When you're ready to open a merge request, please use a descriptive title and fill out the provided template.

The team will be notified, but it helps to post your merge request in #bliss_support.

🙃 Troubleshooting

We'll fill this section out as we go and as issues are raised. But if you haven't found what you're looking for, get in touch via [e-mail] or via the #bliss_support Slack channel ✨.