ToggleButton

A toggle button allows a user to toggle a selection on or off, for example switching between two states or modes.

Example#

import {ToggleButton} from 'react-aria-components';

<ToggleButton>Pin</ToggleButton>

import {ToggleButton} from 'react-aria-components';

<ToggleButton>Pin</ToggleButton>

import {ToggleButton} from 'react-aria-components';

<ToggleButton>
  Pin
</ToggleButton>

@import "@react-aria/example-theme";

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  color: var(--text-color);
  background: var(--button-background);
  border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
  forced-color-adjust: none;
  border-radius: 4px;
  appearance: none;
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-size: 1rem;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
  outline: none;
  padding: 6px 10px;

  &[data-pressed] {
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / 0.1);
    background: var(--button-background-pressed);
    border-color: var(--border-color-pressed);
  }

  &[data-selected] {
    background: var(--highlight-background);
    border-color: var(--highlight-background);
    color: var(--highlight-foreground);

    &[data-pressed] {
      background: var(--highlight-background-pressed);
      border-color: var(--highlight-background-pressed);
    }
  }

  &[data-focus-visible] {
    outline: 2px solid var(--focus-ring-color);
    outline-offset: 2px;
  }
}

@import "@react-aria/example-theme";

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  color: var(--text-color);
  background: var(--button-background);
  border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
  forced-color-adjust: none;
  border-radius: 4px;
  appearance: none;
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-size: 1rem;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
  outline: none;
  padding: 6px 10px;

  &[data-pressed] {
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / 0.1);
    background: var(--button-background-pressed);
    border-color: var(--border-color-pressed);
  }

  &[data-selected] {
    background: var(--highlight-background);
    border-color: var(--highlight-background);
    color: var(--highlight-foreground);

    &[data-pressed] {
      background: var(--highlight-background-pressed);
      border-color: var(--highlight-background-pressed);
    }
  }

  &[data-focus-visible] {
    outline: 2px solid var(--focus-ring-color);
    outline-offset: 2px;
  }
}

@import "@react-aria/example-theme";

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  color: var(--text-color);
  background: var(--button-background);
  border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
  forced-color-adjust: none;
  border-radius: 4px;
  appearance: none;
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-size: 1rem;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
  outline: none;
  padding: 6px 10px;

  &[data-pressed] {
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / 0.1);
    background: var(--button-background-pressed);
    border-color: var(--border-color-pressed);
  }

  &[data-selected] {
    background: var(--highlight-background);
    border-color: var(--highlight-background);
    color: var(--highlight-foreground);

    &[data-pressed] {
      background: var(--highlight-background-pressed);
      border-color: var(--highlight-background-pressed);
    }
  }

  &[data-focus-visible] {
    outline: 2px solid var(--focus-ring-color);
    outline-offset: 2px;
  }
}

Features#

Toggle buttons are similar to action buttons, but support an additional selection state that is toggled when a user presses the button. There is no built-in HTML element that represents a toggle button, so React Aria implements it using ARIA attributes.

• Styleable – Hover, press, keyboard focus, and selection states are provided for easy styling. These states only apply when interacting with an appropriate input device, unlike CSS pseudo classes.
• Accessible – Uses a native <button> element with the aria-pressed attribute, and supports the Space and Enter keys to toggle the selection state.
• Cross-browser – Mouse, touch, keyboard, and focus interactions are normalized to ensure consistency across browsers and devices.

Read our blog post about the complexities of building buttons that work well across devices and interaction methods to learn more.

Anatomy#

Toggle buttons consist of a clickable area usually containing a textual label or an icon that users can click to toggle a selection state. In addition, keyboard users may toggle the state using the Space or Enter keys.

If a visual label is not provided (e.g. an icon only button), then an aria-label or aria-labelledby prop must be passed to identify the button to assistive technology.

Starter kits#

To help kick-start your project, we offer starter kits that include example implementations of all React Aria components with various styling solutions. All components are fully styled, including support for dark mode, high contrast mode, and all UI states. Each starter comes with a pre-configured Storybook that you can experiment with, or use as a starting point for your own component library.

Selection#

A default selection state for a toggle button can be set using the defaultSelected prop, or controlled with the isSelected prop. The onChange event is fired when the user presses the button, toggling the boolean. See React's documentation on uncontrolled components for more info.

function Example() {
  let [isSelected, setSelected] = React.useState(false);

  return (
    <ToggleButton
      isSelected={isSelected}
      onChange={setSelected}
      aria-label="Star">
      ★
    </ToggleButton>
  );
}

function Example() {
  let [isSelected, setSelected] = React.useState(false);

  return (
    <ToggleButton
      isSelected={isSelected}
      onChange={setSelected}
      aria-label="Star">
      ★
    </ToggleButton>
  );
}

function Example() {
  let [
    isSelected,
    setSelected
  ] = React.useState(
    false
  );

  return (
    <ToggleButton
      isSelected={isSelected}
      onChange={setSelected}
      aria-label="Star"
    >
      ★
    </ToggleButton>
  );
}

Disabled#

A ToggleButton can be disabled using the isDisabled prop.

<ToggleButton isDisabled>Pin</ToggleButton>

<ToggleButton isDisabled>Pin</ToggleButton>

<ToggleButton
  isDisabled
>
  Pin
</ToggleButton>

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  &[data-disabled] {
    border-color: var(--border-color-disabled);
    background: var(--button-background);
    color: var(--text-color-disabled);
  }
}

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  &[data-disabled] {
    border-color: var(--border-color-disabled);
    background: var(--button-background);
    color: var(--text-color-disabled);
  }
}

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  &[data-disabled] {
    border-color: var(--border-color-disabled);
    background: var(--button-background);
    color: var(--text-color-disabled);
  }
}

Props#

Styling#

React Aria components can be styled in many ways, including using CSS classes, inline styles, utility classes (e.g. Tailwind), CSS-in-JS (e.g. Styled Components), etc. By default, all components include a builtin className attribute which can be targeted using CSS selectors. These follow the react-aria-ComponentName naming convention.

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  /* ... */
}

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  /* ... */
}

.react-aria-ToggleButton {
  /* ... */
}

A custom className can also be specified on any component. This overrides the default className provided by React Aria with your own.

<ToggleButton className="my-button">
  {/* ... */}
</ToggleButton>

<ToggleButton className="my-button">
  {/* ... */}
</ToggleButton>

<ToggleButton className="my-button">
  {/* ... */}
</ToggleButton>

In addition, some components support multiple UI states (e.g. focused, placeholder, readonly, etc.). React Aria components expose states using data attributes, which you can target in CSS selectors. For example:

.react-aria-ToggleButton[data-selected] {
  /* ... */
}

.react-aria-ToggleButton[data-selected] {
  /* ... */
}

.react-aria-ToggleButton[data-selected] {
  /* ... */
}

The className and style props also accept functions which receive states for styling. This lets you dynamically determine the classes or styles to apply, which is useful when using utility CSS libraries like Tailwind.

<ToggleButton
  className={({ isSelected }) => isSelected ? 'bg-blue-600' : 'bg-gray-600'}
/>

<ToggleButton
  className={({ isSelected }) =>
    isSelected ? 'bg-blue-600' : 'bg-gray-600'}
/>

<ToggleButton
  className={(
    { isSelected }
  ) =>
    isSelected
      ? 'bg-blue-600'
      : 'bg-gray-600'}
/>

Render props may also be used as children to alter what elements are rendered based on the current state. For example, you could swap an icon depending on the selection state.

<ToggleButton>
  {({isSelected}) => (
    <>
      {isSelected ? <PinnedIcon /> : <UnpinnedIcon />}
      Pin
    </>
  )}
</ToggleButton>

<ToggleButton>
  {({isSelected}) => (
    <>
      {isSelected ? <PinnedIcon /> : <UnpinnedIcon />}
      Pin
    </>
  )}
</ToggleButton>

<ToggleButton>
  {(
    { isSelected }
  ) => (
    <>
      {isSelected
        ? (
          <PinnedIcon />
        )
        : (
          <UnpinnedIcon />
        )}
      Pin
    </>
  )}
</ToggleButton>

The states, selectors, and render props for ToggleButton are documented below.

Advanced customization#

Contexts#

All React Aria Components export a corresponding context that can be used to send props to them from a parent element. This enables you to build your own compositional APIs similar to those found in React Aria Components itself. You can send any prop or ref via context that you could pass to the corresponding component. The local props and ref on the component are merged with the ones passed via context, with the local props taking precedence (following the rules documented in mergeProps).

This example shows a ButtonGroup component that renders a group of buttons. The entire group can be marked as disabled via the isDisabled prop, which is passed to all child buttons via the ButtonContext provider.

import {ToggleButtonContext} from 'react-aria-components';

interface ButtonGroupProps {
  children?: React.ReactNode,
  isDisabled?: boolean
}

function ButtonGroup({children, isDisabled}: ButtonGroupProps) {
  return (
    <div style={{display: 'flex', gap: 8}}>
      <ToggleButtonContext.Provider value={{isDisabled}}>        {children}
      </ToggleButtonContext.Provider>
    </div>
  );
}

<ButtonGroup isDisabled>
  <ToggleButton isSelected aria-label="Favorite">★</ToggleButton>
  <ToggleButton aria-label="Flag">⚑</ToggleButton>
</ButtonGroup>

import {ToggleButtonContext} from 'react-aria-components';

interface ButtonGroupProps {
  children?: React.ReactNode;
  isDisabled?: boolean;
}

function ButtonGroup(
  { children, isDisabled }: ButtonGroupProps
) {
  return (
    <div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: 8 }}>
      <ToggleButtonContext.Provider value={{ isDisabled }}>        {children}
      </ToggleButtonContext.Provider>
    </div>
  );
}

<ButtonGroup isDisabled>
  <ToggleButton isSelected aria-label="Favorite">
    ★
  </ToggleButton>
  <ToggleButton aria-label="Flag">⚑</ToggleButton>
</ButtonGroup>

import {ToggleButtonContext} from 'react-aria-components';

interface ButtonGroupProps {
  children?:
    React.ReactNode;
  isDisabled?: boolean;
}

function ButtonGroup(
  {
    children,
    isDisabled
  }: ButtonGroupProps
) {
  return (
    <div
      style={{
        display: 'flex',
        gap: 8
      }}
    >
      <ToggleButtonContext.Provider
        value={{
          isDisabled
        }}
      >        {children}
      </ToggleButtonContext.Provider>
    </div>
  );
}

<ButtonGroup
  isDisabled
>
  <ToggleButton
    isSelected
    aria-label="Favorite"
  >
    ★
  </ToggleButton>
  <ToggleButton aria-label="Flag">
    ⚑
  </ToggleButton>
</ButtonGroup>

Hooks#

If you need to customize things further, such as intercepting events or customizing DOM elements, you can drop down to the lower level Hook-based API. Consume from ToggleButtonContext in your component with useContextProps to make it compatible with other React Aria Components. See useToggleButton for more details.

This example uses Framer Motion to create an AnimatedToggleButton component that animates based on the isSelected state. It can be used standalone or as a part of any React Aria component.

import type {ToggleButtonProps} from 'react-aria-components';
import {ToggleButtonContext, useContextProps} from 'react-aria-components';
import {useToggleState} from 'react-stately';
import {useToggleButton} from 'react-aria';
import {motion} from 'framer-motion';

const AnimatedToggleButton = React.forwardRef(
  (props: ToggleButtonProps, ref: React.ForwardedRef<HTMLButtonElement>) => {
    // Merge the local props and ref with the ones provided via context.
    [props, ref] = useContextProps(props, ref, ButtonContext);
    let state = useToggleState(props);
    let { buttonProps } = useToggleButton(props, state, ref);
    return (
      <motion.button
        {...buttonProps}
        ref={ref}
        animate={{
          scale: state.isSelected ? 1.2 : 1
        }}
      >
        {props.children}
      </motion.button>
    );
  }
);

import type {ToggleButtonProps} from 'react-aria-components';
import {
  ToggleButtonContext,
  useContextProps
} from 'react-aria-components';
import {useToggleState} from 'react-stately';
import {useToggleButton} from 'react-aria';
import {motion} from 'framer-motion';

const AnimatedToggleButton = React.forwardRef(
  (
    props: ToggleButtonProps,
    ref: React.ForwardedRef<HTMLButtonElement>
  ) => {
    // Merge the local props and ref with the ones provided via context.
    [props, ref] = useContextProps(
      props,
      ref,
      ButtonContext
    );
    let state = useToggleState(props);
    let { buttonProps } = useToggleButton(
      props,
      state,
      ref
    );
    return (
      <motion.button
        {...buttonProps}
        ref={ref}
        animate={{
          scale: state.isSelected ? 1.2 : 1
        }}
      >
        {props.children}
      </motion.button>
    );
  }
);

import type {ToggleButtonProps} from 'react-aria-components';
import {
  ToggleButtonContext,
  useContextProps
} from 'react-aria-components';
import {useToggleState} from 'react-stately';
import {useToggleButton} from 'react-aria';
import {motion} from 'framer-motion';

const AnimatedToggleButton =
  React.forwardRef(
    (
      props:
        ToggleButtonProps,
      ref:
        React.ForwardedRef<
          HTMLButtonElement
        >
    ) => {
      // Merge the local props and ref with the ones provided via context.
      [props, ref] =
        useContextProps(
          props,
          ref,
          ButtonContext
        );
      let state =
        useToggleState(
          props
        );
      let {
        buttonProps
      } =
        useToggleButton(
          props,
          state,
          ref
        );
      return (
        <motion.button
          {...buttonProps}
          ref={ref}
          animate={{
            scale:
              state
                  .isSelected
                ? 1.2
                : 1
          }}
        >
          {props
            .children}
        </motion.button>
      );
    }
  );