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Option groups

Grouping is supported via native optgroup elements.
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Additional labels

Supports all three levels of FieldLabel:
  • label — primary title of the field,
  • secondaryLabel — additional context, typically used to indicate optionality of a field,
  • tertiaryLabel — further context, typically used for providing assistance with a field.
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Message and tone

A message is typically used to communicate the status of a field, such as an error message. This will be announced on focus of the field and can be combined with a tone to illustrate its purpose.The supported tones are: "critical", "positive", "caution", and "neutral".
Critical message
Positive message
Caution message
Neutral message
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Field description

Additional context can be provided with a description. This will display below the field label and also be announced by a screen reader when the field is focused.
Extra information about the field
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Disabled field

Mark the field as disabled by passing true to the disabled prop.
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Placeholder prompt

Providing a placeholder will display as a prompt to the user when no value is selected.
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Inserting an icon

For decoration and help distinguishing between fields, an icon can be provided. This will be placed to the left of the field and is not interactive.
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Indirect or hidden field labels

In some cases it may be necessary for a field to be labelled by another element or even not to have a visual label. Instead of providing a label either aria-label or aria-labelledby can be provided.

Custom field label

The label for this field is the Heading element before it.
The label for this field is hidden.
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Data attributes

Braid components are very explicit about the properties they accept, which makes providing arbitrary data attributes not possible. Instead, a data prop can be provided as a single collection of data attributes.
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