@m3e/button

The m3e-button component is a semantic, expressive UI primitive users interact with to perform an action. Designed according to Material Design 3 guidelines, it supports five visual variants, specified using the variant attribute—filled, tonal, elevated, outlined, and text—each with dynamic elevation, shape morphing, and adaptive color theming. The component responds to interaction states (hover, focus, press, disabled) with smooth motion transitions, ensuring emotional clarity and visual hierarchy.

The component is accessible by default, with ARIA roles, contrast-safe color tokens, and strong focus indicators. It supports optional icons and states for binary actions. When using m3e-icon for icons, filled is automatically set based on the selected state of a toggle button. It can also function as a link or be used to submit form data.

Native disabled <button> elements cannot receive focus. This can be problematic in some cases because it can prevent you from telling the user why the button is disabled. You can use the disabled-interactive attribute to style a m3e-button as disabled but allow for it to receive focus. The button will have aria-disabled="true" for assistive technology.

This package is part of M3E monorepo, a unified suite of Material 3 web components. Explore the docs to see them in action.

📦 Installation

npm install @m3e/button

💻 Editor Integration

This package includes a Custom Elements Manifest to support enhanced editor tooling and developer experience.

Visual Studio Code

To enable autocomplete and hover documentation for @m3e/button, install the Custom Elements Manifest Language Server extension. It will automatically detect the manifest bundled with this package and surface tag names, attributes, slots, and events in supported files.

Alternately, you can explicitly reference the html-custom-data.json and css-custom-data.json in your workspace settings:

{
  "html.customData": ["./node_modules/@m3e/button/dist/html-custom-data.json"],
  "css.customData": ["./node_modules/@m3e/button/dist/css-custom-data.json"]
}

🚀 Native Module Support

This package uses JavaScript Modules. To use it directly in a browser without a bundler, use a module script similar to the following.

<script type="module" src="/node_modules/@m3e/button/dist/index.js"></script>

In addition, you must use an import map to include dependencies.

<script type="importmap">
  {
    "imports": {
      "lit": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/+esm",
      "@m3e/core": "/node_modules/@m3e/core/dist/index.js"
    }
  }
</script>

For production, use index.min.js for faster load times.

🗂️ Elements

• m3e-button — A button users interact with to perform an action.

🧪 Examples

The following example illustrates changing the appearance from text (default) to tonal using the variant attribute.

<m3e-button variant="tonal">Tonal Button</m3e-button>

📖 API Reference

This section details the attributes, slots and CSS custom properties available for the m3e-button component.

⚙️ Attributes

| Attribute | Type | Default | Description | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | variant | "elevated" \| "filled" \| "tonal" \| "outlined" \| "text" | "text" | The appearance variant of the button. | | shape | "rounded" \| "square" | "rounded" | The shape of the button. | | size | "extra-small" \| "small" \| "medium" \| "large" \| "extra-large" | "small" | The size of the button. | | toggle | boolean | false | Whether the button will toggle between selected and unselected states. | | selected | boolean | false | Whether the toggle button is selected. | | disabled | boolean | false | Whether the element is disabled. | | disabled-interactive | boolean | false | Whether the element is disabled and interactive. | | type | "button" \| "submit" \| "reset" | "button" | The type of the element. | | name | string | | The name of the element, submitted as a pair with the element's value as part of form data, when the element is used to submit a form. | | value | string | | The value associated with the element's name when it's submitted with form data. | | href | string | | The URL to which the link button points. | | target | string | | The target of the link button. | | rel | string | | The relationship between the target of the link button and the document. | | download | string | | A value indicating whether the target of the link button will be downloaded, optionally specifying the new name of the file. |

🧩 Slots

| Slot | Description | | --------------- | --------------------------------------------- | | (default) | Renders button label/content. | | icon | Renders leading icon before label. | | trailing-icon | Renders trailing icon after label. | | selected | Renders label when toggle button is selected. | | selected-icon | Renders icon before label when selected. |

🎛️ CSS Custom Properties

🧱 Size Properties

All size variants (extra-small, small, medium, large, extra-large) support:

| Property | Description | | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | | --m3e-button-[size]-container-height | Height of the button container | | --m3e-button-[size]-outline-thickness | Outline thickness | | --m3e-button-[size]-label-text-font-size | Font size for label | | --m3e-button-[size]-label-text-font-weight | Font weight for label | | --m3e-button-[size]-label-text-line-height | Line height for label | | --m3e-button-[size]-label-text-tracking | Letter tracking for label | | --m3e-button-[size]-icon-size | Icon size | | --m3e-button-[size]-shape-round | Corner radius for round shape | | --m3e-button-[size]-shape-square | Corner radius for square shape | | --m3e-button-[size]-selected-shape-round | Corner radius when selected (round) | | --m3e-button-[size]-selected-shape-square | Corner radius when selected (square) | | --m3e-button-[size]-shape-pressed-morph | Corner radius when pressed | | --m3e-button-[size]-leading-space | Space before icon/label | | --m3e-button-[size]-trailing-space | Space after icon/label | | --m3e-button-[size]-icon-label-space | Space between icon and label |

🎨 Appearance Variant Properties

All appearance variants (filled, tonal, elevated, outlined, text) support the following properties (replace [variant] with the variant name):

| Property | Description | | -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | | --m3e-[variant]-button-label-text-color | Label color | | --m3e-[variant]-button-icon-color | Icon color | | --m3e-[variant]-button-container-color | Container background color | | --m3e-[variant]-button-container-elevation | Elevation | | --m3e-[variant]-button-outline-color | Outline color (outlined only) | | --m3e-[variant]-button-outline-thickness | Outline thickness (outlined only) |

🟫 State Properties

Each variant supports state properties for disabled, hover, focus, pressed, selected, and unselected. For each variant, the following properties are available (replace [variant] with the variant name):

| Property | Description | | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-label-text-color | Label color when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-label-text-opacity | Label opacity when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-icon-color | Icon color when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-icon-opacity | Icon opacity when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-container-color | Container color when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-container-opacity | Container opacity when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-disabled-container-elevation | Elevation when disabled | | --m3e-[variant]-button-hover-label-text-color | Label color on hover | | --m3e-[variant]-button-hover-icon-color | Icon color on hover | | --m3e-[variant]-button-hover-state-layer-color | State layer color on hover | | --m3e-[variant]-button-hover-state-layer-opacity | State layer opacity on hover | | --m3e-[variant]-button-hover-container-elevation | Elevation on hover | | --m3e-[variant]-button-hover-outline-color | Outline color on hover (outlined only) | | --m3e-[variant]-button-focus-label-text-color | Label color on focus | | --m3e-[variant]-button-focus-icon-color | Icon color on focus | | --m3e-[variant]-button-focus-state-layer-color | State layer color on focus | | --m3e-[variant]-button-focus-state-layer-opacity | State layer opacity on focus | | --m3e-[variant]-button-focus-container-elevation | Elevation on focus | | --m3e-[variant]-button-focus-outline-color | Outline color on focus (outlined only) | | --m3e-[variant]-button-pressed-label-text-color | Label color on press | | --m3e-[variant]-button-pressed-icon-color | Icon color on press | | --m3e-[variant]-button-pressed-state-layer-color | State layer color on press | | --m3e-[variant]-button-pressed-state-layer-opacity | State layer opacity on press | | --m3e-[variant]-button-pressed-container-elevation | Elevation on press | | --m3e-[variant]-button-pressed-outline-color | Outline color on press (outlined only) |

🟦 Selected/Unselected State Properties

For toggle buttons, each variant supports selected/unselected state properties:

| Property | Description | | ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | | --m3e-[variant]-button-selected-label-text-color | Label color when selected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-selected-icon-color | Icon color when selected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-selected-container-color | Container color when selected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-selected-state-layer-color | State layer color when selected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-unselected-label-text-color | Label color when unselected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-unselected-icon-color | Icon color when unselected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-unselected-container-color | Container color when unselected | | --m3e-[variant]-button-unselected-state-layer-color | State layer color when unselected |

🤝 Contributing

See the root monorepo CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on contributing to this package.

📄 License

This package is licensed under the MIT License.