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#6788 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Opened December 28, 2010 07:15PM UTC
Closed December 29, 2010 01:31AM UTC
Button checkbox/toggle state is visually indeterminate
| Reported by: | janicki | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 1.9.0 |
| Component: | ui.button | Version: | 1.8.7 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
When used as a checkbox or toggle, a button's state is indeterminate to the end user. A button's state can only be visually determined by comparing to other buttons (is it a different color?), and therefore can only be assumed correctly if a minority of buttons are currently selected. To the point: if you show one toggle button, there's no easy way with the current CSS to clearly show its state. Yes, it may toggle between two colors, but which color means "on"? It's confusing.
What's needed is some positive feedback, like literally a check mark or 'X', similar to the HTML checkbox in most OSes.
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Changed December 29, 2010 01:31AM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → wontfix |
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| status: | new → closed |
It sounds like you want an actual checkbox widget not the button widget. This is planned for a future release. The purpose of the button plugin is to visually represent the element as a button, regardless of the underlying semantics.