Changes to Toolbar components in WordPress 5.6

Toolbar shouldn’t be used within other toolbars

To better reflect its semantics, the Toolbar component shouldn’t be used to group a set of toolbar controls within another toolbar anymore and will show a deprecation warning if used like so. ToolbarGroup should be used instead.

Before

<BlockControls>
  <Toolbar>
    <ToolbarButton />
  </Toolbar>
</BlockControls>

After

<BlockControls>
  <ToolbarGroup>
    <ToolbarButton />
  </ToolbarGroup>
</BlockControls>

BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. toolbars now require controls to be ToolbarButton or ToolbarItem elements

Rendering native <button> or other custom tabbable elements directly as toolbar items (for example, using BlockControls or BlockFormatControls) has been deprecated. In order to improve toolbar accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility), toolbar items now should use ToolbarButton for regular buttons, or ToolbarItem for any other kind of control (for example, dropdowns).

Before

<BlockControls>
  <button />
  <Button />
  <DropdownMenu />
</BlockControls>

After

<BlockControls>
  <ToolbarItem as="button" />
  <ToolbarButton />
  <ToolbarItem>
    { ( itemProps ) => ( <DropdownMenu toggleProps={ itemProps } /> ) }
  </ToolbarItem>
</BlockControls>

Props to @hazdiego for writing this dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase..

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