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Fixes: #3620

ActionBar.Item declared children as required, so an icon-only item failed to type-check, even though the underlying SecondaryButton already renders icon-only buttons:

<ActionBar.Item icon={trashIcon} aria-label="Delete" />
// TS2741: Property 'children' is missing in type ...

This makes children optional, documents providing an aria-label for icon-only items (it is the button's accessible name when there is no text), and adds a spec that renders an icon-only item and finds it by its accessible name.

As requested in review, it also adds an Icon-Only example to the ActionBar Storybook docs and an ActionBarIconOnlyStates visual test (icon-only items with and without a text action, in the default and small sizes).

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  • MDX documentation adheres to Canvas Kit's Documentation Guidelines (adds an Icon-Only Example section to ActionBar.mdx)
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Targets support, as suggested in review; it merges forward into master like other support fixes.

Testing Manually

Render an icon-only item and check that it type-checks and is announced by its label:

<ActionBar>
  <ActionBar.List>
    <ActionBar.Item icon={trashIcon} aria-label="Delete" />
  </ActionBar.List>
</ActionBar>

yarn vitest run modules/react/action-bar passes, as do yarn typecheck:specs and yarn typecheck:types.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Action Bar items can now display as icon-only buttons. Add an accessible label, and optionally use a tooltip to show it visually.
    • Added examples of icon-only actions in different sizes.

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ActionBarItemProps.children is now optional. The spec checks an icon-only item’s accessible button name. Storybook includes icon-only examples and visual states.

Changes: ActionBar icon-only items

Layer / File(s) Summary
Optional children and accessible name
modules/react/action-bar/lib/ActionBarItem.tsx, modules/react/action-bar/spec/ActionBar.spec.tsx
ActionBarItemProps.children is optional. The spec checks that an icon-only item with aria-label="Delete" renders as a button named “Delete.”
Icon-only examples and visual states
modules/react/action-bar/stories/examples/*, modules/react/action-bar/stories/ActionBar.stories.ts, modules/react/action-bar/stories/ActionBar.mdx, modules/react/action-bar/stories/visual-testing/testing.stories.tsx
The Storybook example and visual-testing story include icon-only Edit and Delete actions with accessible labels. The documentation describes the aria-label requirement and optional Tooltip.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 99d7d

No actionable issue is established for the icon-only ActionBar change; it is mergeable after normal checks.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: allowing icon-only ActionBar items without children.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #3620 requires ActionBar.Item to support icon-only use without children. ActionBarItemProps.children is optional. The added spec verifies an icon-only item as a button named by its `aria-l…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #3620. The implementation, spec, documentation, Storybook example, and visual states all address icon-only ActionBar.Item usage. No unrelated change is shown.
Docstring Coverage Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 6…
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Hey Akshita! Thank you for PR. It can goes to support branch 👍

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ActionBar.Item declared children as required, so an icon-only item such as
<ActionBar.Item icon={trashIcon} aria-label="Delete" /> failed to type-check,
even though the underlying SecondaryButton renders icon-only buttons.

Make children optional, document providing an aria-label for icon-only
items, and add a spec that renders one and finds it by its accessible name.

Fixes Workday#3620
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akshita317 changed the base branch from master to support October 12, 2026 19:01
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Thanks @RayRedGoose! Retargeted to support and rebased the commit onto it. The ActionBar specs, typecheck:specs, typecheck:types and lint all pass on support.

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Marked this ready for review. I don't have permission to add the ready for review label, could a maintainer add it? The test workflow on the rebased commit is also waiting for approval to run, since it comes from a fork.

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We also need to add Icon-only example to storybook and as visual tests

Add an Icon-Only example to the ActionBar Storybook docs, showing icon-only
items with an aria-label next to a text action, and an
ActionBarIconOnlyStates visual test covering icon-only items with and
without a text action, in the default and small sizes.
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Added in c1db351: an Icon-Only example in the ActionBar Storybook docs (icon-only items with an aria-label next to a text action, with a note pointing to Tooltip), and an ActionBarIconOnlyStates visual test covering icon-only items with and without a text action, in the default and small sizes.

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modules/react/action-bar/stories/visual-testing/testing.stories.tsx (1)

60-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the visual-state markup out of the CSF file.

ActionBarIconOnlyStates adds inline JSX to the story definition. Put the state table in a separate component and render that component here. As per coding guidelines: “❌ Inline JSX in the CSF file.”

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Move the visual-state table JSX out of the ActionBarIconOnlyStates CSF story
into a separate component, then render that component from the story while
preserving the existing visual states.

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Move the ActionBarIconOnlyStates table into an ActionBarIconOnlyTest
component and render it from the story, following the convention of
keeping JSX out of the CSF story object.
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Addressed the CodeRabbit nitpick in 99d7df8: the icon-only state table now lives in an ActionBarIconOnlyTest component that ActionBarIconOnlyStates renders, following the button visual tests. The visual states are unchanged.

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