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Toolbar

Layoutaction

A dense row of controls that acts on nearby content, collapsed into ONE tab stop with arrow-key navigation between the controls.

import { Toolbar } from "@elabs-ai/components-ui";
Install
npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui

Skipping the @source line is the most common first failure: Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so every component renders unstyled. The one-time wiring

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Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any other coding agent. Text in [brackets] is yours to fill in.

Add the brand-ui Toolbar component (from @elabs-ai/components-ui) to this project.

1. Read https://elabs-ai.com/llms.txt first: it maps every package and the rules. If you can use MCP servers, connect https://elabs-ai.com/mcp and use its search, docs and tokens tools. If not, run the same lookups in the terminal: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli search "<what you need>"` and `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs <Component>`.
2. Look Toolbar up before writing code: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs Toolbar` prints its real props, variants, what it pairs with and what to avoid.
3. If @elabs-ai/components-ui is not installed yet: `pnpm add @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui` (or `npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui`). If this is the first brand-ui package in the project, wire it once: import `@elabs-ai/components-tokens/styles.css` plus the `themes/light.css` and `themes/dark.css` stylesheets in the CSS entry, add one Tailwind `@source` line per installed @elabs-ai package (Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so without it everything renders unstyled), and wrap the app root in `ThemeProvider` from `@elabs-ai/components-tokens`.
4. Use it here: [the screen or file, and what it should show]
5. Rules: use only @elabs-ai/components-* components and the semantic tokens — no raw colours, no raw font sizes, no arbitrary Tailwind values. Look up each component's real props with the docs tool before you use it; never guess a prop.
6. Done means: the typecheck passes, `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli audit src --strict` reports nothing, and you have opened the app and looked at every screen you touched in the light and the dark theme.

Avoid

  • Using it for the ordinary control row above a list or table — that is ViewToolbar, where every control is its own tab stop.
  • Omitting aria-label — a toolbar is one tab stop, so an unnamed one announces nothing about what it acts on.
  • Putting a text input or a link inside it — the roving tabindex swallows the arrow keys those controls need.
  • Reaching for it to attach actions to a canvas node — that is NodeToolbar in @elabs-ai/components-ai.

Works with

Contains

  • ToolbarButton
  • ToolbarSeparator
  • ToolbarToggleGroup
  • ToolbarToggleItem

Avoid next to

Examples

4 live examples

Keyboard Navigation

The behaviour the role promises, exercised: Tab reaches the toolbar ONCE, and the arrow keys walk it. A row that claims `role="toolbar"` without this tells a screen-reader user to press keys that do nothing.

Vertical

A rail beside the content it acts on. Arrow keys follow the orientation.

Horizontal

Explicitly horizontal — the default, spelled out.

API

Toolbar

orientation
horizontal (default)vertical

Also accepts: Omit<ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof ToolbarPrimitive.Root>, "orientation">, VariantProps<typeof toolbarVariants>

ToolbarButton

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof ToolbarPrimitive.Button>, Pick<VariantProps<typeof buttonVariants>, "variant" | "size">

ToolbarSeparator

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof ToolbarPrimitive.Separator>

ToolbarToggleGroup

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof ToolbarPrimitive.ToggleGroup>

ToolbarToggleItem

Also accepts: ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof ToolbarPrimitive.ToggleItem>, Pick<VariantProps<typeof toggleVariants>, "size">