Fix an issue in IE11 where focus outline was not visible in BaseButton component

[mohitbagra]

Pull request checklist

• Addresses an existing issue: Fixes Focus outline not visible for BaseButton in IE11 #3803
• Include a change request file using $ npm run change

Description of changes

The current alignment of focus outline around BaseButton is making the outline invisible in IE11. Fixed the issue by incrementing the inset by 1px in BaseButton styles.

Focus areas to test

Tested other areas of the application to verify that changes did not affect other portions of the application. Also tested the fix in major browsers (Chrome, FF, Edge, IE11)

[micahgodbolt]

I'm a bit concerned of the visual affect this will have on the majority of our users to support a small percentage of them. Can you include screenshots of buttons before/after this change? It seems our visual regression tests aren't capturing focused states.

[betrue-final-final]

yes, please. Ideally we get a snapshot, but a screenshot here would be good.

[micahgodbolt]

I believe the change to -1 outline was intentional. and I wouldn't want to undermine the purpose for which that was done. Might be high contrast mode related as well.

[mohitbagra]

Chrome:

IE11

Edge:

Firefox:

[mohitbagra]

The issue doesnt repro at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric#/components/button
because this site has a non-fabric css rule added -
button {
overflow: visible;
}

Due to this overflow rule, the outline border is visible even in IE11. So if my current fix is not acceptable, how about adding this overflow rule in BaseButton?

[betrue-final-final]

Those screenshots don't look right. There are one too many outlines...that blue or grey one on the outside shouldn't be there. It looks like the focus rectangle and margin are getting shrunk by 1px all around.

[micahgodbolt]

Thanks though for pointing out the unexpected CSS overflow styles. That's a bug! They're coming from another framework's CSS that is not supposed to be on that page. We're working to remove that so that your bugs repro properly. Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>

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[mohitbagra]

This is on chrome:
Before my fix:

After the fix:

I agree that in non IE browser the outline will be little thicker, but without this fix, IE is showing no focus outline.
This is how it looks in IE before this fix -

[micahgodbolt]

TADA! IE11 button defaults to overflow: hidden, whereas chrome/ff/edge default to overflow: visible

Sounds like the safest bet is to just specify overflow:visible for our buttons. We should probably communicate this pretty well, as anyone that expected an overflow:hidden to work with just a single class selector, might see their code break.

[mohitbagra]

@micahgodbolt
So should we add this rule just in BaseButton styles or to all buttons, like this -
.ms-Fabric button {
overflow: visible
}

(Add this rule in fabric.css)

I assume this issue would not just be scoped to baseButton, so we should add this rule to fabric css file to all buttons under ms-Fabric

[betrue-final-final]

@micahgodbolt, does this fix the issue without the visual regression? We can't break the other, supported and active browsers for this fix.

[mohitbagra]

@micahgodbolt . You are right. If I add overflow: hidden to button in non-IE browsers, they start to show this issue too.

[mohitbagra]

@betrue-final-final Since all non-IE browsers (I tested Chrome, Edge and Firefox) already have "overflow: visible" for buttons by default and fabric is not overriding them right now, adding this rule in fabric css wont cause any regressions in non IE browsers.
This rule should only fix this issue in IE and not break any other browser. So I suggest we add this in fabric css-

.ms-Fabric button {
overflow: visible
}

[micahgodbolt]

My only other thought would be to add the style to our Fabric component, and apply it just like MWF did, to the button. That way any .foo {overflow:hidden} will override the style. @mikewheaton @battletoilet - thoughts on adding this browser compat style to <Fabric>

[micahgodbolt]

we want the fix to be as low specificity as possible to avoid breaking downstream users

[mohitbagra]

@micahgodbolt @mikewheaton @battletoilet - Any thoughts?
If we do want to add this overflow style to Fabric, can you point me to the file where I need to add this change?

[micahgodbolt]

my vote is putting it into the Fabric component as it is not a style specific to our buttons, it is a browser consistency concern. i.e. I don't want any global styles in the button component, but I also don't want this style to have the specificity of a class.

[mohitbagra]

Any idea where do I make this change? I think the css would look like -
.ms-Fabric button {
overflow: visible
}

[betrue-final-final]

The current fix still messes up the focus rectangle in other browsers.

[micahgodbolt]

we really don't want to drop this style into .ms-Fabric button, as that specificity will break anyone using only a className. I know many instances where users needed to remove overflow, and I bet this would break them. We might get away with just .ms-Button, but even that could break some downstream users.

[micahgodbolt]

Pulling the V-team into this response. Curious who is changing button overflow to hidden, and if they have problems with focus rectangle.

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------ So, it turns out that IE11 and Edge/Chrome/FF have different defaults for a button's overflow values. IE11 default button {overflow: hidden} Edge/Chrome/FF default button { overflow: visible} This difference is causing a focus bug in IE11, as the focus ring is outside of the visible area IE11 [cid:f7ca567e-ecea-4f58-80d7-2f40945805bb] Edge [cid:0ae0b4a4-9692-4f55-9e7f-e603ceee9c20] Fix #1 Add button {overflow : visible} to the Fabric component so that it registers a global style and browsers are consistent Problem #1 This introduces a global style, which we generally try to avoid. We can scope it due to ".ms-Fabirc button" being WAY too specific and breaking any .myCoolButton {overflow: hidden} which would have worked prior. Fix #2 Add .ms-Button {overflow: visible} to the Button root styles. Problem #2 This is cleaner, and targeted on where the issue is, but it is still a higher specificity fix and could break anyone using a single class to apply hidden. Button focus is still broken for buttons set to overflow: hidden. Fix #3 Come up with a new focus style method that doesn't involve putting a pseudo element outline on top of the button border (as anything AT or BEYOND the border is hidden via overflow). Problem #3 We spent a ton of time coming up with the current approach, and it'll take a bit of work to devise another that works across various theme/high contrast mode etc. Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>

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