burgton-button

<burgton-button> is a simple, customisable and accessible lit-element menu burger button that you can use in your projects.

Amongst other features, it allows you to choose from different animations, customise colors, animation speed and event toggle classes on multiple targets on the page.

DEMO

You can find examples of the different button possibilities on the documentation page

DOCUMENTATION

On the documentation page you can find an easy to follow "Getting Started" guide, as well as a API description so you can fully customize your <burgton-button> element.

GETTING STARTED

You can use the element on your project in 3 simple steps:

1. Install the <burgton-button> on your project via NPM (or download it here)

   npm install burgton-button

2. Import the <burgton-button> module on your project

   <script type="module" src="node_modules/burgton-button/index.js"></script>

3. Add the element to your page and customize it to your taste

   <burgton-button type="astronaut"></burgton-button>

API

Attributes

You can use some attributes to customize your <burgton-button> button

| Attribute | Description | Valid Values | Default | Example | | --------- | ----------- | ------------- | ------- | ------- | | type | Defines the button animation | 'default', 'arrow-left', 'arrow-right', 'arrow-to-arrow', 'astronaut', 'async', 'crossed', 'ellipsis', 'fall-down', 'minus', 'rotator', 'spin', 'underlined', 'vertical-rotator', 'zoom' | 'default' | <burgton-button type="astronaut"></burgton-button> | | label | Defines the text that will be show with the button | String | - | <burgton-button label="Menu"></burgton-button> | | labelPosition | Defines the position of the label text in relation to the button | 'top', 'bottom', 'right', 'left' | - | <burgton-button label="Menu" labelPosition="top"></burgton-button> | | targetSelectors | Defines on which elements you want to toggle a class when the button is clicked. You can select multiple elements by separating the selectors with a comma | CSS Selector | - | <burgton-button targetSelectors="#circle-one, .circle-two" targetClasses="active, colorful"></burgton-button> | | targetClasses | Defines the class that will be toggled on the selected element. The number of classes must match the number of selectors | CSS selector | - | <burgton-button targetSelectors="#circle-three" targetClasses="active"></burgton-button> | | description | Defines the default text for the 'aria-label' attribute. This value is overwritten with the label text (if present) | String | 'Menu button' | <burgton-button description="Menu on/off button"></burgton-button> | | noAnimation | Disables the button animation, making the transition between inactive and active states immediate | - | - | <burgton-button noAnimation></burgton-button> |

Styles

<burgton-button> exposes several CSS custom properties that you can use to further customize it.

| Property | Description | Valid Values | Default | Example | | -------- | ----------- | ------------- | ------- | ------- | | --burgton-button-line-color | Set the color of the button lines | CSS color value | #66cc99 | --burgton-button-line-color: tomato; | | --burgton-button-line-color-active | Set the color of the button lines when it is active. If not defined will inherit color from inactive state. | CSS color value | --burgton-button-line-color | --burgton-button-line-color-active: purple; | | --burgton-button-animation-duration | Set the animation duration | CSS time value | 500ms | --burgton-button-animation-duration: .75s; | | --burgton-button-easing | Set the animation easing | CSS easing value | ease-in-out | --burgton-button-easing: ease-out; | | --burgton-button-scale | Set the button scale (size) | Number (multiplier) | 1 | --burgton-button-scale: 1.3; | | --burgton-button-border-radius | Set the button lines border-radius | CSS border-radius value | 0px | --burgton-button-border-radius: 2px; | | --burgton-button-label-font-size | Set the font-size for the button label | CSS font-size value | 14px | --burgton-button-label-font-size: 1rem; | | --burgton-button-label-font-color | Set the font color for the button label | CSS color value | #999999 | --burgton-button-label-font-color: white; | | --burgton-button-label-font-color-active | Set the font color for the label text when the button is active | CSS color value | #999999 | --burgton-button-label-font-color-active: purple; | | --burgton-button-label-font-weight | Set the font weight for the label text when the button is active | CSS font-weight value | inherit | --burgton-button-label-font-weight: 600; | | --burgton-button-label-text-transform | Set the text-transform for the label text when the button is active | CSS text-transform value | uppercase | --burgton-button-label-text-transform: capitalize; |

Methods

<burgton-button> exposes several methods which you can call from your application.

| Method | Description | Example | | ------ | ----------- | ------- | | .toggleState() | Toggle between the button's active and inactive state | yourButton.toggleState(); | | .activate() | Activate the button | yourButton.activate(); | | .deactivate() | Deactivate the button | yourButton.deactivate(); |

Events

` fires several custom events so you can react to them on your application.

| Event | Description | | ----- | ----------- | | burgton-button-state-change | Fires whenever the button's state changes | | burgton-button-click | Fires whenever the button is clicked | | burgton-button-activate | Fires whenever the button state becomes active | | burgton-button-deactivate | Fires whenever the button state becomes inactive |

A11y

Accessibility is very important, so we try to implement some good practices to reach as many users as possible and provide them a good experience. We do this mainly by adding several relevant aria attributes and also by giving you the possibility to change them via attributes.

CONTRIBUTING

If you have any ideas, suggestions or question you can open an issue on this github repo.

You can also find the burgton-button package on NPM.