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Lots of new features added to MDS core

Enhanced pagination, rounded buttons, new button group variants and more!
17 December 2025

Pagination

  • New “select” and “input” variants
  • First and last page buttons
  • Page size and status

This enhanced pagination has also been bundled with the table component making it easier to show pagination for your table based UI.

Anatomy of the additional features that come with each pagination variant.

  1. Page size: allows the user to select the number of items per page.
  2. Page status: show what range is currently displayed.
  3. First and Last page buttons allow the user to navigate to the start and end.

Rounded button

We have added the ability to render a button as “rounded”. Use the rounded shape when the action needs to stand out from the normal flow and shape of other actions on the page. It should be used sparingly and with intention. For example, persistent on-page helpers like “Need help?” floating chat button or circular controls for the content carousel slider.

Button group variants & appearance

There are now three variants to the button group: bordered (default), borderless and rounded.

Bordered button group for utility controls.
Bordered button group for utility controls.
Borderless button group used to select transport mode.
Borderless button group used to select transport mode.
Rounded button group used as a filter for documents.
Rounded button group used as a filter for documents.

We have also added a new “selected appearance” property that affects how selected buttons in the group are rendered.

New selected appearance for selected items in the button group.
New selected appearance for selected items in the button group.

List action button

Action button added to the list component.
Action button added to the list component.

Brand indicators

We have added new “brand indicators” to the Tree Navigation, Tabs and Pagination Components. This visual refresh brings back a splash of brand colour to our UIs and helps with navigation orientation.

Brand indicators on the tree navigation, tabs and pagination.
Brand indicators on the tree navigation, tabs and pagination.

Graduated from the lab 🧪

The following have graduated from MDS experiments and are now considered production ready and supported by the MDS: