Release History

Fixes

Doc Site

Restored functionality of links to previous versions' documentation on the Release History page.

v1.16.0 April 10, 2018

What's New

UI components and related documentation, including
- Layout Grid
- Cards
Added Dialogs sizing documentation and predefined widths.

Doc Site

Added sizing documentation for Modals.
Published a UX Patterns getting started guide. Thanks to Will Parton for this contribution!
Updated Segments page to reflect Will Parton's new role as UX Patterns segment owner.

Sketch File

Created a Layout Grid symbol and added it to the existing Page Templates.
Created Cards symbols.
Added sizing variations for:
- Data Tables
- Button Groups
- Checkbox, Checkbox Without Label, and Radio Button
- Tooltips
- Dialogs

Enhancements

Added version stamp to compiled CSS for ease of version identification.

Doc Site

Updated the Charts getting started description.

Sketch File

Updated Modal width options to use pixel values instead of t-shirt sizes.

Fixes

Doc Site

Fixed a documentation site-only defect affecting the size of the Pagination.
Corrected typos in modifier classes.

Sketch File

Fixed a pinning defect in the Modal With Actions header symbol. Thanks to Jon Duncan for finding this!

Deprecated

Existing Modals sizing modifier classes.

v1.15.0 March 26, 2018

What's New

Added and documented small and large sizes for default Tooltips.
Improved SCSS @import functionality so importing an individual component's SCSS automatically @imports all necessary dependencies.

Doc Site

Added Forms sizing documentation.

Enhancements

Updated the List Group and Data Table components to use top alignment when content wraps to multiple lines, ensuring optimal legibility.

Doc Site

Expanded Popover sizing documentation to cover the use of custom widths.
Improved documentation describing the different use cases for Switches and Checkboxes.
Expanded documentation on non-breaking style changes.

Fixes

Doc Site

Removed broken link to the deprecated MUI-B demo site on the Migrating from MUI-B page.

v1.14.0 March 12, 2018

What's New

Added small and large sizes for Checkboxes and Radio Buttons.

Doc Site

Added Switch sizing documentation.
Added List Group With Icon documentation.
Updated Charts Visual Language with guidance on asset allocation tints.
Updated Constants documentation sections with links to other related documentation pages.
Updated Development Overview documentation with information on installing Docker (now required to run visual diffing tests).

Sketch File

Added Switches sizing variations.
Added List Group With Icon variations.
Added Heading and Body Text symbols for easy access to typographic styles when using the Sketch Library.

Enhancements

Sketch File

Updated Data Tables column header symbols to allow text to wrap upwards on to multiple lines. Thanks to Jon Duncan for this suggestion!
Updated Switch, Checkbox, and Radio Button symbols to allow label text to wrap to multiple lines.

Fixes

Notification and Alert component icons now display correctly in IE11.
Removed unnecessary border declaration from Tag styles.
Updated Sortable Data Table examples to show correct sorting behavior.

Doc Site

Fixed invalid markup on primary doc site template.

v1.13.0 February 27, 2018

Fixes

Fixed a backward-incompatible change to notification.scss that was shipped in version 1.9.0.

Doc Site

Updated Getting Started Guide with instructions on how to import the correct notification component scss.

v1.12.0 February 26, 2018

Backward Incompatible Change

Notification component styles released in MDS 1.9.0 are incompatible with component markup released prior to 1.9.0. This is resolved in version 1.13.0. MDS recommends all users of the Notification component upgrade to version 1.13.0 or higher.

Read more about the MDS approach to versioning and breaking changes.

What's New

New component variations released, with documentation to follow in a future release:
- List Groups With Icon
- Switches Sizing

Doc Site

Added a Status Tag documentation component for use on the MDS site and updated the Tint Stack documentation component to use the Status Tag.

Enhancements

Added small and large size Data Tables with accompanying documentation.
Added Equity Fund variation to the Style Box chart with accompanying documentation.
Added x-axis label configurations to Chart component explorers.
Updated typography documentation in regard to bolding and mixin use.
Updated Color page's accessibility section.

Doc site

Updated visual diffing tests to use a Docker VM, allowing MDS teammates across Mac and PC platforms to perform tests consistently.
Added link behavior to the MDS site's logo to allow easy navigation back to the home page.

Fixes

Fixed a bug on Windows making the menu text of the Forms Select unreadable. Thanks to Gustavo Morales for finding this!
Fixed file paths in Constants documentation.

Doc Site

Fixed Button macro to allow custom href property.

v1.11.0 February 12, 2018

Backward Incompatible Change

Read more about the MDS approach to versioning and breaking changes.

What's New

Published new Sketch Design Assets and introduced a new, more scalable method of consuming the assets as a Sketch Library.

Enhancements

Published the mds-tag-group wrapping class to enable consistent spacing within groups of Tags.
Improved the Accessibility of our Menus, List Groups, and Popovers.
Updated our NPM dependency to fix a security vulnerability.
Added a Component Explorer and a Dismissible Tags demo to the Tags component documentation page.
Published documentation on how to implement Interactive Iconography.
Updated sizing guidance for Button Groups.
Improved and standardized the language around Accessibility for Combo Boxes, Links, and Colors.
Added small and large Data Table variations to the Data Table sink page.

Doc site

Updated our demo JS for Notifications so that the proper interactive behaviors are exhibited.

Fixes

Updated the Menus component macro to reference the supported width modifier classes.
Corrected an unintentional class combination and added missing examples to our Menus Sink Page.
Properly name spaced our $mds-tail-size constant to follow our code standards.

Doc Site

Vertically centered our demo Modals to match our placement guidance for the component.

v1.10.0 January 22, 2018

Backward Incompatible Change

Read more about the MDS approach to versioning and breaking changes.

What's New

Published Tags component and documentation.

Enhancements

Improved responsiveness documentation for Style Map, Style Box, and Market Barometer.
Added a "with checkbox" variation to the Data Tables sink page.

Fixes

Doc Site

Fixed text crop visual example.

v1.9.1 December 21, 2017

View Docs

Backward Incompatible Change

Read more about the MDS approach to versioning and breaking changes.

Fixes

Doc Site

Fixed language on home page.

v1.9.0 December 19, 2017

Backward Incompatible Change

Read more about the MDS approach to versioning and breaking changes.

What's New

UI Components and related documentation, including:
- Alerts, including component explorer.
- Top Hats, including component explorer.
- Notifications, including component explorer.
- Page Shells.
- Navigation Containers.
Morningstar Base Charts components and related documentation, including:
- Geographical Map, including component explorer.
- Market Barometer, including component explorer.
Added new proportional spacing Constants and implemented variables across all components in the library.

Enhancements

Optimized the custom check mark icon SVG used in the Stepper.
Added the !default tag to all Constants and componenent-specific variables to facilitate theming for products that perform client customizations.

Doc Site

Optimized the Style Box editorial example for display on smaller devices.
Added an mds-doc default body class.

Fixes

Ensured that Menus triggered from Button Groups display and function correctly.
Fortified Tooltips to ensure they don’t inherit styling from parent elements. Thanks to Juan Vallejo for reporting!
Removed all inline styling from icon SVGs. Thanks to Juan Vallejo for reporting!
Added a backwards compatible solution for vertically centering Modals. Thanks to Tison Tang for reporting!
Fixed an SVG encoding defect preventing the Combo Boxes selected item icon from displaying in some browsers. Thanks to Gediminas Suklevicius for reporting!

Doc Site

Fixed broken image in repository README.
Fixed spacing defect in component explorer controls.

v1.8.0 November 27, 2017

What's New

Navigation UX Pattern.
Morningstar Base Charts components and related documentation, including:
- Scatter Plot component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Bubble component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Style Map component and documentation, including component explorer.

Enhancements

Created a dedicated Sustainability color constant.
Optimized scripts to speed up compile time of a local build.

Doc Site

Added scrolling to the right-hand local navigation when it is taller than the viewport.
Ensured an in-page anchor link’s location is added to the URL for easy copying.

Fixes

Interactive color documentation correction.

Doc Site

Fixed a styling a defect on Dialog’s with inputs on dark backgrounds.
Fixed a defect causing multiple pages in the navigation to be highlighted as active.
Fixed a defect causing anchor links to scroll to behind the masthead.

v1.7.0 November 3, 2017

What's New

Stepper UI Component and documentation.
Morningstar Base Charts components and related documentation, including:
- Line component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Donut component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Correlation Matrix component and documentation, including component explorer.

Enhancements

Updated the Buttons page to include detailed documentation about the use of icons in buttons, and made improvements to the overall structure to the exisiting content.
Added our new Accessibility segment owner Nathan Leahigh to the Segments page.
Refined and aligned documentation for Action Required Popovers and Modals.
Added container border documentation to the Borders page.

Doc Site

Fixed a styling defect on Links included in Image Text Pair captions.

Fixes

Updated bower.json privacy setting.

Doc Site

Grammar fixes.

v1.6.0 October 23, 2017

What's New

Morningstar Base Charts components and related documentation, including:
- Time Series Line Chart component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Style Box component and documentation, including component explorer.
Created constants for a new "Container" border style and applied it to Popovers, Modals, Dialogs, and Notifications.

Doc Site

Added an Editorial Do & Don't documentation component to display pairs of text using the same styling as the image-based Do & Don't component.

Enhancements

Added example error text to the Combo Box error example.
Added new width modifier classes to the Popover and deprecated the existing sizing classes.
Enabled visual diff testing on the Site Navigation and Masthead components.

Doc Site

Added the ability to use all capital letters in the header labels of the Reference Table documentation component.
Added description for mds-doc-image-text-pair documentation component.
Documented available page template configurations to use when publishing new content.

Fixes

Fixed a hover styling defect on the disabled Flat, No Background button.
Fixed a hover styling defect on the Combo Box.

Doc Site

Fixed a styling defect on Links included in Image Text Pair captions.
Fixed a font size styling defect in Do & Don't image captions.
Fixed a formatting issue on the Color page.
Fixed a text formatting defect on the Punctuation page. Thanks to Zach Sherwood for finding this defect.
Fixed a defect in the local navigation anchor link scrolling behavior.

Deprecated

Existing Popover sizing modifier classes.

v1.5.0 October 9, 2017

What's New

Morningstar Base Charts components and related documentation, including:
- Vertical Bar Chart component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Horizontal Bar Chart component and documentation, including component explorer.
- Charts Getting Started documentation, for designers and engineers.
- Charts Visual Language documentation.
- Choosing a Chart documentation.
- Charts Release History.
UI Components and related documentation, including:
- Mastheads.
- Site Navigation.
New Borders documentation.

Enhancements

Updated Menus trigger pairings documentation.
Updated checkboxes to allow Checkboxes Without Labels
Added labels to Combo Boxes.

Doc Site

Added ability to suppress utility links (i.e., View on Bitbucket, Report a Bug) in the right-hand local navigation and applied this behavior to appropriate pages.
Added description for mds-doc-image-text-pair documentation component.

Fixes

Fixed misuse of <label> tags to now use <span> on code pair examples.

v1.4.1 September 25, 2017

Fixes

Restore /dist directory to support Bower installation

v1.4.0 September 22, 2017

What's New

Added a Component Explorer to the Buttons page, allowing for sandbox-style exploration of the component’s available configurations.
New Design Handoff to Development documentation. Thanks to Noor Abdelrahim for all of her help and examples.

Enhancements

Added documentation to the Iconography page detailing the process used to save icon svg artwork for production, how to use custom icons alongside MDS, and how to request the addition of a custom icon to the MDS library.
Added CSS Class Reference and Mixin Reference sections to the Iconography page. Thanks to Swapnil Dagabaj for this suggestion.
Improved the Notification, With Action demo JavaScript to match the timeout behavior described in the component variation documentation.
Improved the Buttons accessibility documentation.

Fixes

Fixed a Radio Group defect by adding the proper name attribute.

Deprecated

$mds-font-size-base and $mds-font-size-default in code. Mapped all 16px font size constants to use $mds-font-size-m and marked the deprecated constants as such in constants.yaml with code comments.

v1.3.1 September 18, 2017

Fixes

Version locked js-beautify dependency to prevent automatic upgrading to a broken version. Thanks to Mandar Katre for finding this issue and a solution!

v1.3.0 September 8, 2017

What's New

New Versioning & Breaking Changes documentation.
New JavaScript in MDS documentation.
New Contribution documentation detailing levels of contribution broken down by commitment level and length of commitment.

Enhancements

Improved Data Table accessibility and related documentation.
Added Links visual style to column headers in Data Table.
Flagged Combo Boxes for known accessibility concerns.
Upgraded visual diff tooling to version 3.0 of BackstopJS.
Updated our BitBucket README with detailed documentation about MDS.

Doc Site

Updated the “About MDS” navigation to reflect distinct sections for Development, Contributions, and Adoption.
Updated the home page to include a “What’s Next?” that outlines high-priority items on the MDS roadmap.
Updated the segment owners list on the Segments page.

Fixes

Fixed spacing and text styling defects in Menus. Thanks to Dan Ciupuliga, Cesar Guerrero, and Stéphane Péricat for their feedback on this fix.

Doc Site

Added missing CSS declarations in Typography Mixins example CSS code snippet.
Fixed Dialog in-page and popup examples.
Fixed Modal documentation. Thanks to Nikki Kopelson for finding this defect.
Fixed a Dialog sizing discrepancy by ensuring that the popup examples are using the border-box mixin.
Corrected a reference to an outdated Constant in the Button documentation. Thanks to Katie Wolf for finding this defect.

v1.2.0 August 25, 2017

What's New

New Flat Button, No Background variation.
Editorial Guidelines for Punctuation.
Editorial Guidelines for Voice Principles.
New Adopting MDS documentation.

Enhancements

Improved Dialog accessibility.
Improved Notifications accessibility.
Improved Pagination accessibility.
Improved accessibility and added keyboard support to Range Slider. Accessibility enhancements require noUiSlider version 10.0.0 or higher.

Doc Site

Updated Code Snippet doc component to use the MDS Tooltip.
Revised Getting Started For Engineers guide, including additional CSS Font Path workarounds.
Added Visual Diffing Instructions to contributor guide.
Fully documented the MDS Doc site npm dependencies.

Fixes

Fixed the negative number glyph in Data Tables and added guidelines to doc. Thanks to Katie Wolf for this request!

Doc Site

Ensured all constants are represented in Constants reference table.

Deprecated

Old Flat Button variation. Use the new Flat Button, No Background variation instead.
$mds-font-size-base and $mds-font-size-default Constants. Use $mds-font-size-m instead.

v1.1.1 August 14, 2017

Fixes

Doc Site

Updated Button doc example to show correct class for Primary variation.
Updated doc site nav for to correct z-index conflicts on Modal doc page.

v1.1.0 August 11, 2017

What's New

Added Large Button variation.
Added MUI-B to MDS Migration Guide.
Added Visualization & Charts sections to the Color and Constants pages.

Enhancements

Added External Dependencies section to Getting Started documentation.
Updated Tooltip styles to no longer require a fixed height for the tooltip.
Updated README documentation with a simpler getting started guide for building the MDS Doc site locally.
Added accessibility section to Iconography documentation.
Added ability to set the SCSS font path. Documented in the Getting Started guide. Thanks to Cesar Guerrero for the suggestion via the #mds-engineering Slack channel!
Added additional accessibility guidelines for Forms.
Added full accessibility support in Tooltip.
Improved Search Fields examples and editorial documentation.

Doc Site

Updated doc site layouts to use CSS Grid for consistency across page types.

Fixes

Updated List Group subsection hover color to match hover color for regular links in list group.
Updated Button Group styles to align with default button disabled state.
Removed unused modifier class from Range Slider doc examples.
Fixed screen reader text and improved accessibility for Icon-Only Button and With-Icon Button.
Improved accessibility of checkbox and radio Button Groups by adding <label> elements.
Improved color contrast of Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, and Switches.
Fixed a visual defect in the dark variation of the Radio Button.
Removed focus outline from Modal.
Fixed Combo Box bug with search field in Safari browser. Thanks to Tim Mills for finding this defect!
Adjusted Combo Box selected item state to mirror List Group behavior. Thanks to Nikki Kopelson for finding this defect!

v1.0.4 August 1, 2017

Fixes

Update npm dist to include the latest compiled assets for MDS

v1.0.3 July 28, 2017

What's New

Published MDS Craft Library v1.1, including documentation on how to install the library.
Added support for visual differencing the MDS UI Component library built upon the backstopjs plugin.

Enhancements

Published Sketch Design Assets v1.1, including:
- Symbol resizing bug fixes for Iconography, Data Tables, Dialogs, Forms, List Groups, Menus, Popovers, and Tooltips.
- Added disabled states for all Search Fields.

Fixes

Fixed NPM asset paths and resources included in the MDS NPM distribution.
Fixed SCSS paths within Getting Started documentation.
Fixed broken item focus halo within the documentation site’s left navigation, which uses the List Group component.
Added positioning modifier classes to the CSS class reference tables for Tooltip and Popover.
Removed non-modifier classes documented in the Modals component.
Fixed a broken link on the Getting Started page.
Fixed a constants variable reference in Color documentation.
Fixed MDS local navigation to only add a namespaced ID to auto-generated items that start with a number.
Updated MBC dependency to 2.0.5.

v1.0.2 July 21, 2017

Fixes

Added <meta viewport> tag to doc site so it renders correctly on all devices.
Updated Button Group documentation to include mds-button-group--flex class.
Updated Combo Box documentation examples to change based on background color selector.
Updated Getting Started documentation to fix broken links.

v1.0.1 July 5, 2017

Fixes

Added source .scss, .svg, and other files to NPM and Bower distributions.
Updated Buttons documentation to include correct mds-button--secondary class in demo examples.
Fixed site navigation animation bug in IE.

v1.0.0 June 30, 2017

What's New

Deployed code assets via a package available on Morningstar’s NPM and Bower repositories.
Redesigned MDS site home page.
Strengthened Typography, including:
- Detailed documentation on font family, weight, headings, line height, and line length.
- Improved available mixins for headings, body copy, and links, including resets, size, weight, color, and line heights.
Improved Iconography, including:
- Added considerable guidelines and instructions.
- Made icon templates available for download.
- Added, updated, and removed icons from an earlier set and weaving relevant final icons throughout components.
Published visual style & components including:
Published the first UX pattern: Errors.
Published additional system documentation for:
- Theming MDS
- Terms of Use

Enhancements

Added technical documentation to:
- Forms
- List Groups
- Links
- Loaders
- Pagination
Reconciled and extended border-radius Constants concepts and applied them across components.
Extended Combo Boxes to provide small, medium and large incremental sizes.
Added dark green brand color to Constants.
Added Icon-Only variation to the Button Group component.
Added example of Form’s Radio Button hover behavior.
Applied Icon-Only Button to Notifications.
Deepened application of spatial concepts and tokens to library components, including Dialogs, Modals, Notifications, Search Fields, Switches.
Extended the accessibility and JavaScript documentation for Popovers, Range Sliders, and Tooltips.

Site Documentation

Added the ability to pair an image with a caption.
Added the ability to pair images and text side-by-side, and applied the new layout to many components.
Added background color to documentation code/example pairs
Improved link specificity for reporting bugs and requesting enhancements to open customized JIRA tickets.
Added a table of contents navigation to many documentation site pages.
Isolated documentation page titles and intros to ease formatting and content reuse.
Centralized the conventional display of code text.

Fixes

Applied the correct interactive blue to Loaders.
Fixed browser compatibility issues arising for Forms, Popovers.
Hid the Search Field’s X button for IE browsers.
Unified Forms input and select and Button Groups heights for distinct elements across incremental sizes.
Adjusted varying sizes and accessibility features of Loaders.
Applied more precise border color constants to Data Tables and List Groups.
Adjusted the offset of the focus ring applying to Buttons, Combo Boxes, Forms, Search Fields, and Switches via a global constant.
Removed Dialogs asynchronous event handlers.

Site Documentation

Fixed small defects within site navigation.
Made numerous small copy edits throughout site documentation.
Displayed box-shadow constants appropriately on the Constants page.
Suppressed site navigation active highlight when on a page not displayed in the site navigation.

v0.7.0 June 16, 2017

What's New

Published documentation for visual style & components including:
- Space
- Dialogs
- Forms
- Icon-Only Buttons
- Loaders
- Modals
- Notifications
- Search Fields
Added documentation describing how the community can learn about and engage with the system, including:

Enhancements

Improved documentation site typography with larger type and proper spacing
Improved documentation page-specific navigation with enhanced visual style, smooth scrolling, responsiveness, headers, and more.
Extended the Space visual conventions for inline items aligned to the left and right of a block.
Added and documented an optional close button to the Tooltip component
Added examples to the Pagination component

Fixes

Visual Style & Component Library

Updated Border Colors to use a lighter gray in light background settings.
Applied the mds-link mixin to the List Groups component
Refined the location of a focus ring on the Button Group and Links components
Removed underline from required form indicator in Firefox and Chrome
Applied spatial conventions to existing components including Tooltips.
Added accessibility support for labels and content in the Pagination component
Simplified the mds-size mixin used for incremental spacing for components of varying sizes.

Site Documentation

Added background color to label within code/example renderings, improving contrast between the label and the rendered content beneath it
Removed narrow examples from the Modals and Range Sliders components
Removed subsection divider between sections in site navigation
Enabled the code pill to wrap in documentation reference tables
Remove dependency on forked github version of gulp-nunjucks plugin

v0.6.0 June 2, 2017

What's New

New component documentation now available:
- Button > Flat Variation
- Pagination
- Popovers
- Range Sliders
New components released, with documentation to follow in a future release:
- Combo Box
Published helpful setup and configuration instructions for engineers to Get Started.
Displayed the gallery of Icons with a custom grid design.
Displayed Typography specimens for varied font weights, sizes, and types.
Normalized icon sizing for regular and small icons.

Enhancements

Improved the Modal component with:
- Dynamic button quantity (previously, max 2) and types, including flat icon buttons
- Added scrollbar on content body within the modal
- Fully utilizes MDS typography mixin for the content body
- Width options and fitting 90% height of a viewport
- Makes title/heading optional (although title is still present in DOM for accessibility)
- Added clickable overlay to dismiss modal but disabled for those that contain a primary button
Enhanced MDS site navigation (on the left) to emphasize visual style, improve list group size and spacing, and better organize concerns for scale.
Added accessibility attributes to the Search Fields component.
Suppressed visited styles on Links.
Improved Data Tables, Button Groups and List Group macros and tooling for documentation displays.
Improved CSS Class References per component by highlighting code using a code pill display

Fixes

Aligned focus state displays across library components, including Button, Search Field, and Switch.
Moved component-specific JavaScript demonstrations from the library/ folder to the docs/ folder, and consolidated demonstration JavaScript across MDS sink pages.

v0.5.0 May 19, 2017