Editor: Build the View menu with radio items for the viewport options by annezazu · Pull Request #82363 · WordPress/gutenberg

annezazu · 2026-09-02T20:54:10Z

What?

Rebuilds the editor's View menu with the Menu component of @wordpress/ui, and offers the viewport options as radio menu items instead of a list of checkmarked items.

cc @ciampo, who suggested radio menu items and asked to be pinged on a PR trying the new component out.

Why?

As reported in #81226, turning responsive editing on and choosing which viewport to look at both lived in this one menu as checkmarked items. The checklist implied being able to be in multiple modes at once and the presentation also implied several viewports could be selected at once, when only one can:

With a checklist, it also feels like I should be able to select multiple viewports at one, but only one is allowed at a time.

@ramonjd asked whether a control that enforces single selection could be used, and @ciampo answered that this is what radio menu items in a menu are for. @talldan noted the menu already used MenuItemsChoice, which enforces single selection but renders it as check marks, and asked whether there was a plan to switch to the new component.

How?

PreviewDropdown moves from DropdownMenu + MenuItemsChoice to Menu.Root / Menu.Trigger / Menu.Popup, following the more menu (#81564) and the mode switcher:

Viewports become Menu.RadioGroup + Menu.RadioItem, so single selection is shown by radio dots.
Responsive styles and Show template stay checkmarks as Menu.CheckboxItem, which now read as a different kind of thing from the viewport group.
Groups become Menu.Separator, and View site becomes a Menu.LinkItem.

The item defaults happen to match the old behaviour exactly: Base UI's radio and checkbox items keep the menu open on click, while plain and link items close it, which is what the old onClose wiring did by hand.

A few things worth reviewer attention:

PostPreviewMenuItem is migrated too. A legacy MenuItem inside a Base UI popup renders a menuitem the menu's composite doesn't know about, so it isn't keyboard reachable. It keeps the named wp-preview-{id} window its click handler reuses (via a render anchor, as in packages/ui/src/breadcrumb/link-item.tsx), and falls back to a disabled Menu.Item for an unsaveable post, since Menu.LinkItem has no disabled state.
It deliberately does not use openInNewTab. That appends "(opens in a new tab)" to the accessible name, which only repeats a label already reading "Preview in new tab" — and it would replace the named window with _blank. View site does use it, matching the VisuallyHidden text it had before.
The menu is now named "View" after its trigger, not "View options". Base UI sets aria-labelledby on the popup pointing at the trigger, which takes precedence over an aria-label of its own. The more menu behaves the same way.
Plugin fills route through the item the more menu already shares with them, which the as deprecation of PluginPreviewMenuItem (Editor: Deprecate the as prop of the plugin menu item components #82319) anticipated.
Menu.Root renders no element, so the wrapper the toggle was styled through is gone; its rules move onto the button, including the distraction-free hide rule in header/style.scss.

Also removed, all dead: the editor-preview-dropdown--{device} class, the icon on each viewport choice (MenuItemsChoice discarded it in favour of the check mark), and the header rule keeping MenuItemsChoice check icons visible, whose last use in the header was this menu.

Testing Instructions

Open a post or page in the editor.
Open the View menu in the header.
Confirm Desktop / Tablet / Mobile are radio buttons, with exactly one selected, and that picking one switches the canvas and leaves the menu open.
Confirm Responsive styles below them is still a check mark, so the two groups read differently.
Toggle Responsive styles on. The menu stays open, the toggle button picks up the responsive tint, and each viewport's description changes from "Preview … viewport." to "Style … only.".
Confirm Preview in new tab opens a preview, and that previewing again reuses the same tab.
On a page with a template, confirm Show template still toggles. When editing a template instead, confirm View site opens the front end in a new tab.
Turn on Preferences → Appearance → Show button text labels and confirm the toggle still shows its "View" label.
Turn on Distraction free and confirm the toggle is hidden.
With a plugin registering a PluginPreviewMenuItem, confirm its item still appears at the bottom of the menu and closes the menu when clicked.

Testing Instructions for Keyboard

Tab to the View button in the header and press Enter (or Space, or ↓).
Confirm the menu opens with the currently selected viewport highlighted.
Use ↑ / ↓ to move through every item, including Responsive styles, Preview in new tab, and any plugin items — nothing should be skipped.
Press Enter on a viewport and confirm it is selected and the menu stays open, with the radio state announced.
Press Enter on Responsive styles and confirm the checked state is announced and the menu stays open.
Press Esc and confirm the menu closes and focus returns to the View button.
With a screen reader, confirm the menu is announced as a menu named "View", the viewport items as radio items, and Responsive styles as a checkbox item.

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This pull request was authored with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5), which wrote the implementation, the tests, this description, and the changelog entry, working from the existing more-menu and mode-switcher migrations as precedent. I directed the work and take responsibility for it.

Turning on responsive editing and choosing which viewport to view both lived in the View menu as checkmarked items, so the menu could show two checkmarks that meant different things: the viewport being looked at, and responsive editing being on. The checklist also suggested several viewports could be selected at once, when only one can. Offer the viewports as radio menu items, which say that one at a time is selected, and keep "Responsive styles" a checkbox item, which now reads as a different kind of thing. The menu is rebuilt with the `Menu` component of `@wordpress/ui`, following the more menu and the mode switcher. Along the way: - `PostPreviewMenuItem` becomes a link item, since a legacy `MenuItem` inside the popup is not reachable by keyboard. It keeps the `wp-preview-{id}` window its click handler reuses, and falls back to a disabled item for an unsaveable post, which the link item has no state for. - Plugin fills route through the item the more menu already shares with them, which the `as` deprecation of `PluginPreviewMenuItem` anticipated. - The menu is named "View" after its trigger. Base UI names the popup from the trigger, which took precedence over the "View options" label it carried. - `Menu.Root` renders no element, so the wrapper the toggle was styled through is gone and its rules move onto the button. - Drop the unused `editor-preview-dropdown--{device}` class, the `icon` of each viewport choice, which `MenuItemsChoice` discarded, and the header rule keeping `MenuItemsChoice` check icons, whose last use in the header was this menu. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The editor preview and View menus now use @wordpress/ui menu primitives. Device options use radio items, settings use checkbox items, and preview actions use link or disabled items. Related styles, documentation, and tests were updated.

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Preview menu migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preview dropdown UI `packages/editor/src/components/preview-dropdown/...`, `packages/editor/src/components/header/style.scss`, `packages/editor/src/components/more-menu/more-menu-item.tsx`, `packages/editor/CHANGELOG.md`	The preview dropdown now uses `@wordpress/ui` menu primitives for device, responsive, template, site, preview, and plugin actions. Styles and documentation reflect the new structure.
Post preview menu item `packages/editor/src/components/post-preview-button/index.jsx`, `packages/editor/src/components/post-preview-button/test/...`	Saveable previews render as links with the preview target. Unsaveable previews render as disabled non-links. Tests cover both states.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a10af

The View menu migration preserves the existing viewport, preview, template, and plugin actions, but the View site option can briefly be non-actionable before its destination URL resolves. This is a bounded low-risk issue that should receive explicit owner follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: ciampo

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Editor
  participant Button
  participant Menu.Root
  participant PreviewOptions
  Editor->>Button: Opens the preview menu
  Button->>Menu.Root: Opens the non-modal popup
  Menu.Root->>PreviewOptions: Renders radio, checkbox, and link items

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- Around line 155-165: Extend the PostPreviewMenuItem test to mock window.open,
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action’s __unstableSaveForPreview() completion. Assert that the named preview
window is opened or reused and that navigation uses the expected URL, while
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- Around line 220-224: Update the “View site” menu render condition to require
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+		renderMenu( <PostPreviewMenuItem /> );
+		await openMenu( user );

 		const menuItem = screen.getByRole( 'menuitem', {
 			name: 'Preview in new tab',
 		} );
 		expect( menuItem.tagName ).toBe( 'A' );
 		expect( menuItem ).toHaveAttribute( 'href', url );
+		// The named window the click handler reuses, rather than the `_blank`
+		// of a link that opens in a new tab.
 		expect( menuItem ).toHaveAttribute( 'target', 'wp-preview-123' );


🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the preview action, not only its markup.

This test checks the anchor attributes but never clicks the item. It would still pass if the migrated Menu.LinkItem stopped opening the named window or navigating after __unstableSaveForPreview() resolves. Mock window.open, click the item, and assert the named-window and navigation behavior.

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coderabbitai · 2026-09-02T20:59:11Z

+				{ isTemplate && (
+					<>
+						<Menu.Separator />
+						<Menu.LinkItem
+							href={ homeUrl }


🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Gate the "View site" item on a resolved homeUrl.

homeUrl reads home from the root/__unstableBase entity record. That record is undefined until it resolves, so the first render of the menu can pass href={ undefined } to Menu.LinkItem. An anchor without href is not focusable and not activatable, so the item and its separator render but do nothing.

Include homeUrl in the render condition.

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- { isTemplate && ( + { isTemplate && !! homeUrl && ( <> <Menu.Separator /> <Menu.LinkItem href={ homeUrl }

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ramonjd · 2026-09-03T00:38:08Z

Thanks @annezazu

I think there's some heavy overlap with an existing PR from @Mamaduka

Editor: Refactor the View menu to use the Menu component #82321

That one is getting a lot of reviews. Should we fold this one into that?

Mamaduka · 2026-09-03T06:14:35Z

Yeah, it's same PR 😄

annezazu · 2026-09-03T19:27:49Z

Oh wow! I missed this. I’m sorry about that. Burn it with fire. Closing out!

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