Let the rail centre its destinations

Plan step 25 (navigation Missing): M3's "alignment: top or center; on tablets
prefer center alignment for reach" had no implementation — the rail was
top-aligned only. `<x-navigation-rail align="center">` centres the destinations
between the header and the footer, which stay at their ends because M3 keeps the
menu icon and the FAB top-aligned. `safe center` gives the top back the moment
there are more destinations than fit, where centring would push the first one
out of reach above the scroller.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qwx5USif3wFFmxtHg5U1g9
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@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ M3 Expressive's navigation rail: collapsed (96px, icon over label) or expanded (
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- `mode`: `collapsed`, `expanded`, `collapsible` (default: expanded until its menu button collapses it; the choice is `$store.rail`, remembered and applied before the first paint), `modal` (collapsed in the layout; the menu button or `$store.rail.show()` opens it expanded over a scrim, focus held until Escape, the scrim or leaving the page), `adaptive` (`<x-app-shell>`'s, one rail per window size class: hidden and opened as a modal on a compact window, collapsed and opened as a modal at `medium`, a standard rail from `expanded` — collapsed there, expanded from `large`).
- Props: `label` ("Main"), `width` (expanded width, `16rem`, held between 220 and 360px — or the word `narrow` for M3's other *collapsed* width, 80px against the default 96, where the items are their icons alone; the labels stay in the accessibility tree and a narrow rail still expands to 16rem), `menu` (the menu button; on by default for `collapsible`, `modal`, `adaptive`), `divider` (M3's optional vertical divider on the page's side — use it when the page scrolls under a fixed rail), `fill` (`false` for a transparent container, which M3 allows while the items keep 3:1 contrast). Slots: `brand` (beside the menu button, expanded only), `header` (one `<x-fab label icon>`, which the rail morphs into an extended FAB and back as it expands — it also rests at elevation 0, as M3 asks of a nested FAB), the destinations (the only part that scrolls), `footer`. In a flex row the rail sticks to the top of the viewport.
- Props: `label` ("Main"), `width` (expanded width, `16rem`, held between 220 and 360px — or the word `narrow` for M3's other *collapsed* width, 80px against the default 96, where the items are their icons alone; the labels stay in the accessibility tree and a narrow rail still expands to 16rem), `align` (`top` default, or `center` for M3's centred destinations — preferred on a tablet; the menu button, brand and FAB stay at the top and the footer at the foot), `menu` (the menu button; on by default for `collapsible`, `modal`, `adaptive`), `divider` (M3's optional vertical divider on the page's side — use it when the page scrolls under a fixed rail), `fill` (`false` for a transparent container, which M3 allows while the items keep 3:1 contrast). Slots: `brand` (beside the menu button, expanded only), `header` (one `<x-fab label icon>`, which the rail morphs into an extended FAB and back as it expands — it also rests at elevation 0, as M3 asks of a nested FAB), the destinations (the only part that scrolls), `footer`. In a flex row the rail sticks to the top of the viewport.
- Anything else inside a rail takes both shapes with the `rail-collapsed:` variant, true while that rail is drawn collapsed for whatever reason: `<span class="rail-collapsed:hidden">…expanded only…</span>`, `<span class="hidden rail-collapsed:inline-flex">…collapsed only…</span>`. Put the variant on a wrapper, never on a component. Nothing that shows while collapsed may be wider than 96px.
- A `collapsible` rail is held to the collapsed 96px below `medium` (600px), where M3 says to use a navigation bar rather than a standard rail. `collapsed` and `expanded` are fixed-width by design: wrap one in a `medium:` element if it must not show on a phone.
- `<x-navigation-rail-item>`: the same props as `<x-navigation-bar-item>`. `<x-navigation-rail-section label="…">`: a group with a heading that shows only while the rail is expanded; it names the group for screen readers either way.
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@@ -443,6 +443,16 @@
padding-block: 0.5rem 1rem;
}
/* "Alignment: top or center; on tablets prefer center alignment for reach. Menu icon and FAB
are always top-aligned" (docs/reference/m3/components-navigation-selection-inputs.md
§ Navigation rail). Only the destinations move, then the header and the footer stay at
their ends of the rail and `safe` puts them back at the top the moment there are more of
them than fit, where centring would otherwise push the first one out of reach above the
scroller. */
[data-navigation-rail][data-align='center'] [data-navigation-rail-destinations] {
justify-content: safe center;
}
[data-navigation-rail-heading] {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@
(NavigationRailCollapsedTokens.NarrowContainerWidth, 80px against the default 96), where the
items are their icons alone because no label fits under a 56px indicator at that width; the
labels stay in the accessibility tree, since they are what name the destinations, and a
narrow rail expands to the default 16rem; `menu` shows the menu button (by default for `collapsible`,
narrow rail expands to the default 16rem; `align` is `top` (the default) or `center`, which
puts the destinations at the rail's vertical centre M3 prefers that on a tablet, for reach
while the menu button, the brand and the FAB stay at the top and the footer at the foot, as M3
asks; more destinations than fit go back to the top rather than out of reach above the
scroller; `menu` shows the menu button (by default for `collapsible`,
`modal` and `adaptive`); `divider` draws M3's optional vertical divider on the edge the page
is on which is also what M3 asks for when a page scrolls underneath a fixed rail; `fill`
(`false`) drops the container colour for a transparent rail over the page's own background,
@@ -78,6 +82,7 @@
'mode' => 'collapsible',
'label' => null,
'width' => '16rem',
'align' => 'top',
'menu' => null,
'divider' => false,
'fill' => true,
@@ -91,11 +96,13 @@
$collapsedAtFirst = in_array($mode, ['collapsed', 'modal'], true);
$narrow = $width === 'narrow';
$width = $narrow ? '16rem' : $width;
$centred = $align === 'center';
@endphp
<div
data-navigation-rail="{{ $mode }}"
@if ($narrow) data-width="narrow" @endif
@if ($centred) data-align="center" @endif
@if ($divider) data-divider @endif
@unless ($fill) data-fill="false" @endunless
@if ($interactive)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
</div>
</div>
BLADE,
'Collapsed, narrow and expanded rails' => <<<'BLADE'
'Collapsed, narrow (centred) and expanded rails' => <<<'BLADE'
<div class="flex w-full flex-wrap items-start gap-6">
<div class="flex h-[36rem] overflow-hidden rounded-corner-lg border border-outline-variant">
<x-navigation-rail mode="collapsed" label="Collapsed example" divider>
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
</div>
<div class="flex h-[36rem] overflow-hidden rounded-corner-lg border border-outline-variant">
<x-navigation-rail mode="collapsed" width="narrow" label="Narrow example" divider>
<x-navigation-rail mode="collapsed" width="narrow" align="center" label="Narrow example" divider>
<x-slot:header>
<x-fab label="Compose" icon="edit" />
</x-slot:header>