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Buttons & Toggles

Async Action Button

A copy button that runs its own three states: idle, working (a short accent arc spins in the icon slot while the label reads 'copying') and done (the button fills accent and a tick draws itself). A mono line under it reports the component id and size.

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When to use it

Copy, save, submit or fetch actions where the button itself should confirm the work landed — clipboard copies, form saves, one-shot API calls.

When not to

Actions that take longer than a couple of seconds (use a progress line) or need cancel; toolbars with many simultaneous async buttons.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Edit the labels in set() ('copy component' / 'copying' / 'copied'), the items array that the mono line cycles, and the phase lengths WORK=1400, DONE=1700, GAP=1900; change the icon by replacing the .ab13-plus path. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • labels in set() and the items array (id + size pairs)
  • phase lengths (WORK, DONE, GAP in ms)
  • icon paths (.ab13-plus, .ab13-tick) and spinner arc length (stroke-dasharray 15.8 56.6)
  • accent + on-accent tokens (--ab13-accent, --ab13-on-accent)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • state machine in set()/tick() — a real click and the idle demo run the same trigger()
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard (no demo clock, click resolves without the spin)
  • visibilitychange pause
  • pathLength=1 on the tick path (the draw is a 1→0 dashoffset)
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • The idle demo triggers itself every ~2 s — set demo=false (or remove the clock) in a product
  • The done state auto-returns to idle after DONE ms; there is no error state

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