Button: Update hover styles to account for pressed state for `tertiary button` #68542

yogeshbhutkar · 2025-01-08T04:37:31Z

What, Why and How?

As noted in the comment, the is-pressed CSS rule was overridden on hover, resulting in a dark blue accent that reduced readability.

gutenberg/packages/components/src/button/style.scss

Line 172 in ef7afef

color: $components-color-accent-darker-20;

This PR introduces an additional :not condition to ensure the color property is applied only when the is-pressed state is not active.

Testing Instructions

Start storybook using npm run storybook:dev command.
Navigate to Button component.
Make sure the variant is tertiary.
Notice, the text color stays white on hover.

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Before	After

The settings button hover effect

It was found to work as expected.

Closes: #68535

github-actions · 2025-01-08T04:56:02Z

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afercia · 2025-01-08T11:22:29Z

I'd suggest to wait for some feedback from @WordPress/gutenberg-design and see what is the desired styling.
Edge case: I think the :active non-hovered state makes the background color turn to a light gray? To test:

Move the cursor away from the button.

Observe the button background turns to a light gray.

Screenshot:

yogeshbhutkar · 2025-01-08T11:40:20Z

Thanks for the review, @afercia. I think I've considered the :active state already and have fixed the bug by explicitly setting the color when the button is active. However, I've noticed a similar issue with the secondary variant of the button.

I'll await design feedback on this one, post which, I should have a clear path forward.

t-hamano

Thanks for the PR!

We found that this problem is new to WordPress 6.8, so let's fix this problem in 6.8 release.

First, this problem occurred by #67325. I read all of #67325, and it looks like the reason for the changes made to the tertiary button as well as the secondary button was to apply a consistent hover color style (See this commit: d68ec6a).

At that time, the is-pressed selector was added to the secondary button, but it seems that adding it to the tertiary button was forgotten.

t-hamano · 2025-03-27T12:39:36Z

packages/components/src/button/style.scss

 			background: color-mix(in srgb, $components-color-accent 4%, transparent);
 			color: $components-color-accent-darker-20;
 		}

 		&:active:not(:disabled, [aria-disabled="true"]) {
 			background: color-mix(in srgb, $components-color-accent 8%, transparent);
+			color: $components-color-accent-darker-20;


I think this color makes the text hard to read in hover + active (hover + mouse click) state:

Currently, the pressed + active state is inconsistent across all variations. Text becomes invisible, background color changes, etc.

In the screenshot below, I have enabled the pseudo active state for all variations:

Until we have a clear direction to address these, I suggest not adding new styles to the active state.

Thanks for the review, @t-hamano! I've removed the styles applied to active states in cd554ed.

Would it be helpful to create a new issue for it with Needs design feedback to gather opinions?

Would it be helpful to create a new issue for it with Needs design feedback to gather opinions?

It's a good idea 👍

…s pressed

t-hamano

LGTM! Let's wait for additional feedback and backport this PR to 6.8 RC2.

I tested various states by running storybook:e2e:dev. I believe there are no visual changes except for hover + pressed + tertiary state:

6be2455945af7f5fded6ba5df2f565b5.mp4

t-hamano · 2025-03-28T09:53:32Z

Pinging @WordPress/gutenberg-components @Mamaduka for additional feedback/approval. We plan to backport this PR into 6.8 RC2.

Mamaduka · 2025-03-28T09:55:11Z

The fix makes sense to me, so +1 for backporting.

github-actions · 2025-03-28T10:01:34Z

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t-hamano · 2025-03-28T10:09:28Z

@yogeshbhutkar Do you have the bandwidth to manually backport this PR into the wp/6.8 branch? A new PR is needed targeting the ~~wp/6.7~~ wp/6.8 branch as auto cherry-pick failed due to conflicts.

Similar failures have occurred in the past, but these were also caused by conflicts in the changelog file. Example:

yogeshbhutkar · 2025-03-28T10:33:40Z

Thanks for the heads up, @t-hamano. I'll be creating a PR shortly.

…y button` (WordPress#68542)

…y button` (#69744) * Button: Update hover styles to account for pressed state for `tertiary button` (#68542) * chore: scope `CHANGELOG` changes to the current PR * chore: remove version from `CHANGELOG` Co-authored-by: yogeshbhutkar <yogeshbhutkar@git.wordpress.org> Co-authored-by: t-hamano <wildworks@git.wordpress.org>

…y button` (WordPress#68542) * Button: Update hover styles to account for pressed state * Components: Add `CHANGELOG` entry * Components: Update `CHANGELOG` entry * Components: move `CHANGELOG` entry to `Unreleased` section * Button: Update active state color for better visibility when button is pressed * chore: fix CHANGELOG entry * fix: remove color from active state Co-authored-by: yogeshbhutkar <yogeshbhutkar@git.wordpress.org> Co-authored-by: t-hamano <wildworks@git.wordpress.org> Co-authored-by: afercia <afercia@git.wordpress.org> Co-authored-by: Mamaduka <mamaduka@git.wordpress.org> Co-authored-by: patil-vipul <vipulpatil@git.wordpress.org>

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