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Stacked on #10151.

The Tabs underline now follows the selected tab with CSS anchor positioning instead of JS measuring.

Tabs with the underline anchored to the selected Security tab

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  • Primitive: Tabs.Indicator no longer measures the active tab or sets --cl-tab-left/width/top/height. It is an aria-hidden span that carries data-direction (forward / backward). Direction comes from the same selection reducer SegmentedControl uses, based on tab document order, and controlled value changes are synced during render. A force-mounted Tabs.Panel still exposes --cl-tab-transition-direction.
  • Styled Tabs: the Tabs.Indicator part is removed. Tabs.List renders the underline itself. The selected tab names the anchor, and each list sets anchor-scope, so nested tab lists each keep their own underline.
  • Motion: the leading edge moves on --cl-duration-base and the trailing edge on --cl-duration-slow. They swap when the selection moves backward, use --cl-ease-enter, and become instant under reduced motion.
  • Fallback: where anchor changes can't be animated (no anchor positioning, or Firefox), a static underline sits inside the selected tab, with no animation. The anchored underline and the fallback share one .cl-tabs-indicator class, so one rule styles both.
  • Forced colors: the underline paints Highlight with forced-color-adjust: none.
  • RTL: in horizontal lists, arrow keys follow the visual order under dir="rtl".
  • Behavior change: onValueChange no longer fires when the already-selected tab is chosen again.
  • The @supports queries are duplicated as literals in tabs.styles.ts and segmented-control.styles.ts, because StyleX can't import plain constants into stylex.create.

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Tabs now tracks selection direction as forward or backward and exposes it through the indicator’s data-direction attribute. The component renders an anchor-positioned indicator and a per-tab fallback underline. The changes remove the standalone Tabs.Indicator API and measured-positioning utility. Tests, examples, and documentation now cover direction tracking, fallback rendering, and CSS anchor positioning.

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Wrapped or custom-rendered tabs can lose the selected underline, although selection itself remains intact. This is a bounded visual issue with a composition workaround; correct the selectors before relying on those layouts.

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Comment on lines +95 to +98
display: {
[anchors]: { default: 'none', ':has(~ [data-selected])': 'block' },
default: 'none',
},

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Handle wrapped tabs in the anchored indicator selector.

Tabs.List accepts and renders arbitrary children. If a consumer wraps a Tabs.Tab, the wrapper becomes the indicator's following sibling, so :has(~ [data-selected]) does not match the selected tab. The anchored indicator stays hidden, and the fallback indicator is disabled when anchors are supported.

🐛 Suggested fix
-      [anchors]: { default: 'none', ':has(~ [data-selected])': 'block' },
+      [anchors]: {
+        default: 'none',
+        ':has(~ [data-selected], ~ :not([role="tablist"]) > [data-selected])': 'block',
+      },
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display: {
[anchors]: { default: 'none', ':has(~ [data-selected])': 'block' },
default: 'none',
},
display: {
[anchors]: {
default: 'none',
':has(~ [data-selected], ~ :not([role="tablist"]) > [data-selected])': 'block',
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Review comment at @packages/mosaic/src/components/tabs/tabs.styles.ts around
lines 95 - 98:
Update the anchored indicator selector in the `display` styles so it also
detects a selected tab nested inside a wrapper sibling, while preserving the
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🟡 Minor · Match fallback indicators nested by custom tab renders. · tabs.styles.ts:112-119

packages/mosaic/src/components/tabs/tabs.styles.ts:112-119
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match fallback indicators nested by custom tab renders.

Tabs.Tab forwards its supported render prop to CompositeItem, whose computed props include the tab children. A consumer can therefore wrap the fallback indicator. The current :where([data-selected] > *) selector does not match that nested indicator, so no-anchor browsers keep the underline hidden.

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-      [noAnchors]: { default: 'none', ':where([data-selected] > *)': 'block' },
+      [noAnchors]: { default: 'none', ':where([data-selected] *)': 'block' },
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