---
title: 'Steps: Overview'
parts:
  - Steps
  - Overview
eleventyNavigation:
  key: 'Steps: Overview'
  order: 10
  parent: Steps
  title: Overview
---

# Steps: Overview

A web component that can be used to break a single goal down into dependable sub-tasks.

```js script
import { html } from '@mdjs/mdjs-preview';
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-steps.js';
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-step.js';
```

```js preview-story
export const main = () => html`
  <lion-steps>
    <lion-step initial-step>
      Step 1
      <button type="button" @click="${ev => ev.target.parentElement.controller.next()}">
        Next
      </button>
    </lion-step>
    <lion-step>
      <button type="button" @click="${ev => ev.target.parentElement.controller.previous()}">
        Previous
      </button>
      Step 2
      <button type="button" @click="${ev => ev.target.parentElement.controller.next()}">
        Next
      </button>
    </lion-step>
    <lion-step>
      <button type="button" @click="${ev => ev.target.parentElement.controller.previous()}">
        Previous
      </button>
      Step 3
    </lion-step>
  </lion-steps>
`;
```

## Features

- navigate between different steps with 'previous' and 'next' functions.
- keeps status of each step
  - untouched
  - entered
  - left
  - skipped
- options
  - **initial-step**: Set to the first step of the flow, blocks calling `previous` function.
  - **condition**: Dynamic condition, when true the step is added to the flow.
  - **invert-condition**: Inverts the condition set.

In many application you build multi-step workflows like multi-step forms where you want to split a long process into smaller steps making the user's perception of it and filling in data easier. The idea of this component is to provide a simple way to define such steps and transition from one step to another while saving data between them and to conditionally skip some steps based on the data.

## Installation

```bash
npm i --save @lion/ui
```

```js
import { LionSteps, LionStep } from '@lion/ui/steps.js';
// or
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-steps.js';
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-step.js';
```