A highly customizable and accessible toggle

Vue Toggles

A highly customizable and accessible toggle.

Introduction

Vue Toggles comes out of the box with accessibility support for:

  • aria-checked depending on state
  • aria-readonly if the toggle is disabled
  • prefers-reduced-motion if the user has requested any type of motion reduction [prefers-reduced-motion]

Accessibility

What's left for you, when it comes to accessibility, is labeling the toggle correctly. This is either done by:

  • A <label for="example-id">Toggle description</label> followed by the toggle component <VueToggles id="example-id" />
  • An aria-label, for example <VueToggles aria-label="Toggle description" />. Remember, you still need a visual text description of what the toggle does

The focus-style is also left up to you — which is recommended you don't remove. If you think the default is ugly, style it yourself!

Installation

npm i vue-toggles

Import

Import plugin:

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueToggles from 'vue-toggles';

Vue.component('VueToggles', VueToggles);

Usage

The toggle is very easy to use out of the box. The bare minimum for it to work is a @click-function and a :value-prop.

<VueToggles @click="value = !value" :value="value" />

Options

You can also add more props to customize things like color and width/height.

<VueToggles
  @click="value = !value"
  :value="value"
  height="30"
  width="90"
  checkedText="On"
  uncheckedText="Off"
  checkedBg="#b4d455"
  uncheckedBg="lightgrey"
/>

Properties

Name Type Default Description
value Boolean false Initial state of the toggle button
disabled Boolean false Toggle does not react on mouse or keyboard events
reverse Boolean false Reverse toggle to Right to Left
height [String, Number] 25 Height of the toggle in px
width [String, Number] 75 Width of the toggle in px
checkedText String null Optional text when the toggle is checked
uncheckedText String null Optional text when the toggle is unchecked
checkedBg String #5850ec Background color when the toggle is checked
uncheckedBg String #939393 Background color when the toggle is unchecked
checkedColor String #ffffff Text color when the toggle is checked
uncheckedColor String #ffffff Text color when the toggle is unchecked
dotColor String #ffffff Color of the toggle dot
fontSize [String, Number] 12 Font size in px
fontWeight [Number, String] normal Font weight

Browser compatibility

  • Chrome: 40+
  • Firefox: 25+
  • Safari: 10+
  • IE: 11+

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