Kit parts
An action and the menu of its other ways, as two keys in one outline: Save, and a narrow key beside it for Save as draft or Save and close. The wide key is a real button that does what its words say. The narrow one opens a menu. They share the outer corners and one hairline between them, and each goes down on its own.
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Two of the kit’s keys set flush, so each is still its own cap on its own skirt and goes down by itself. The pair is only an inline-flex row: the corners that face outward are the key’s own radius and the shared edge is square, which is concentric with nothing to adjust. The hairline is drawn inside the narrow key’s left edge so it moves with that key when it is pressed. The script is one listener that hangs the menu’s card from the whole split instead of from the narrow key; the rest is the menu part.
| Name | Kind | Description |
|---|---|---|
| disabled | attribute | The whole split is off, or only the menu is. |
| Enter · Space | keyboard | Do the action. |
| Enter · Space · ↓ | keyboard | Open the card on its first line; ↑ opens on the last. |
| Escape | keyboard | Close it and return the focus to the narrow key. |
Press Save: it saves. Press the narrow key, or focus it and press Enter, Space or Down: the other ways open beneath. Escape closes the card and puts the focus back on the narrow key.
Keys that belong together set side by side in one slot, like the transport keys of a deck. Each is still its own cap and goes down on its own; only the corners facing a neighbour are tightened, so the row reads as one bank. A split key is one action with the menu of its other ways, two caps in one slot, and a readout can be printed between keys.
A card of actions and options that slides out from under its key. The key stays down while the card is out; an option that is on lights its lamp.
Every button, and every link that acts like one: a cap on a skirt that drops below the plate when pressed.
A rack of keys in one slot cut into the plate, under one tab stop. Keys, toggle keys, a copy key and a menu key sit side by side, parted into clusters by engraved lines, and the arrow keys move along it so a keyboard user passes the whole rack with one Tab.