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Of course, a button isn't a button if you can't click it. To toggle the button, add an event listener. To add event listeners on the host element (in this case, icon-toggle), add a listeners object to the element prototype:

icon-toggle.html

  Polymer({
    /* this is the element's prototype */
    is: 'icon-toggle',
    properties: {
      toggleIcon: String,
      pressed: {
        type: Boolean,
        value: false,
        notify: true,
        reflectToAttribute: true
      }
    },
    listeners: {
      'tap': 'toggle'
    },
    toggle: function() {
      this.pressed = !this.pressed;
    },
  });

Key information:

  • The listeners object provides a simple way to set up event handlers. It maps event names to handler names.

  • The tap event is generated by Polymer's gesture system when the user clicks or taps on a target with a mouse or finger. (The listeners object works with built-in events like keydown and keyup, too.)

Save the icon-toggle.html file and look at the demo again. You should be able to press the button and see it toggle between its pressed and unpressed states.

Demo showing icon toggles with star and heart icons. The icons have a black border, and the pressed icons are colored red.

Learn more: data binding. To see how the demo works, open icon-toggle-demo.html and take a look around (if you downloaded the code, you'll find this file in the demo folder.) Yes, the demo for this element is also an element. The element uses two-way data binding and a computed binding to change the string displayed when you toggle the button.

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