@spectrum-web-components/button-group

Overview

sp-button-group delivers a set of buttons in horizontal or vertical orientation while ensuring the appropriate spacing between those buttons.

Usage

yarn add @spectrum-web-components/button-group

Import the side effectful registration of <sp-button-group> via:

import '@spectrum-web-components/button-group/sp-button-group.js';

When looking to leverage the ButtonGroup base class as a type and/or for extension purposes, do so via:

import { ButtonGroup } from '@spectrum-web-components/button-group';

Options

A button group can be either horizontal or vertical in its orientation. By default, a button group is horizontal. Use vertical option when horizontal space is limited.

Horizontal

<sp-button-group>
    <sp-button>Button 1</sp-button>
    <sp-button>Longer Button 2</sp-button>
    <sp-button>Short 3</sp-button>
</sp-button-group>

Vertical

<sp-button-group vertical>
    <sp-button>Button 1</sp-button>
    <sp-button>Longer Button 2</sp-button>
    <sp-button>Short 3</sp-button>
</sp-button-group>

Accessibility

Review the guidelines for the button children.

Changelog

1.7.0 (2025-06-11)

Minor Changes

sp-overlay: Fixed : Overlays (like pickers and action menus) were incorrectly closing when scrolling occurred within components. The fix ensures the handleScroll method in OverlayStack only responds to document/body scrolling events and ignores component-level scrolling events, which was the original intention.

sp-card: Fixed: On mobile Chrome (both Android and iOS), scrolling on sp-card components would inadvertently trigger click events. This was caused by the timing-based click detection (200ms threshold) in the pointer event handling, which could misinterpret quick scrolls as clicks. This issue did not affect Safari on mobile devices.

sp-action-button: - Fixed : Action buttons with href attributes now properly detects modifier keys and skips the proxy click, allowing only native browser behavior to proceed.

Patch Changes

sp-styles: Remove unnecessary system theme references to reduce complexity for components that don't need the additional mapping layer.

sp-card: - Fixed: sp-card component relies on sp-popover for certain toggle interactive behaviors, but this dependency was missing from its dependency tree.

sp-menu: Fixes: Icons in menu stories weren't properly responding to theme changes when used in functional story components. Switching to class-based LitElement components ensures proper component lifecycle hooks and shadow DOM context for icon initialization and theme integration.

sp-tabs: Added @spectrum-web-components/action-button as a dependency for Tabs as its used in the direction button.

sp-split-view: Added @spectrum-web-components/shared dependency in splitview since it uses ranDomId from the shared package

sp-textfield: Replace deprecated word-break: break-word with overflow-wrap: break-word to align with modern CSS standards and improve cross-browser compatibility. This property was deprecated in Chrome 44 (July 2015) in favor of the standardized overflow-wrap property.