1320876 - implement split button for webextension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1253419

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[tobias.mueller]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.100 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.5.658.44

Steps to reproduce:

I wanted to implement a split button (comparable to the bookmark button in Firefox) with the webextension api


Actual results:

I couldn't figure out how to implement a split button using the webextension api


Expected results:

It should be possible to declare a split button using the webextension api

Comment 2

[flying sheep]

Kris, you’re right that the bookmark button is actually a menu-button, but what the poster meant is probably something like the zotero addon uses:

<toolbaritem class="toolbaritem-combined-buttons">
 <toolbarbutton class="toolbarbutton-1 toolbarbutton-combined"/>
 <toolbarbutton class="toolbarbutton-1 toolbarbutton-combined"/>
</toolbaritem>

Comment 3

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Well, if that is what they meant, it probably won't be implemented. At least, not in the near future.

Comment 4

[Michael Buckley]

What about a way of putting an iframe inside the button so that arbitrary content could be added? I am thinking like you could put to <button> elements inside to do what is mentioned above, or also <input type="search"> to make your own search box. I know it is more then was originally asked for, but it would be a solution.

I have been messing with buttonAction on another bug trying to implement a new feature.  If there is interest in this idea I could attempt it when I next have a free day and post a patch.

Comment 5

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

(In reply to Michael Buckley from comment #4)
> What about a way of putting an iframe inside the button so that arbitrary
> content could be added?

No, we've done that in the past, and the results are not good.