Hiding controls with include/exclude results in empty rows and sections
See original GitHub issueDescribe the bug
If I hide all but one of a story’s controls using the include or exclude configuration fields (as documented here), the controls panel looks weird:

Note the various empty rows, some of which contain controls (whose values don’t seem to get passed to the story), and the empty “Attributes” section. The full list of controls (if I don’t use include or exclude at all) looks like this:

Note the similarity: the “Events” section disappeared completely, as did the header of the “Props” section, but every row just seems to have been blanked out rather than being hidden.
It doesn’t matter whether I use include to only show the controls I want, or exclude to hide the ones I don’t, the result is the same.
To Reproduce
Hide any number of controls using include or exclude. Hiding even just one control causes this problem. The one exception seems to be that hiding a control that is a boolean toggle doesn’t trigger the bug.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/683116 reproduces this, both the screenshot shown above and similar issues with other stories (screenshots of those below)
System
$ npx sb@next info
Environment Info:
System:
OS: Linux 5.4 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz
Binaries:
Node: 10.15.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.2/bin/node
npm: 6.4.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.2/bin/npm
Browsers:
Chrome: 89.0.4389.114
Firefox: 87.0
npmPackages:
@storybook/addon-a11y: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-actions: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-backgrounds: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-controls: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-docs: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-links: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-storysource: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/addon-viewport: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
@storybook/vue: 6.2.9 => 6.2.9
Additional context I had been hiding controls like this:
MyStory.argTypes = {
propName: {
table: {
disable: true
}
}
};
which works just fine, and which I will continue to do. But it gets cumbersome when hiding a lot of controls, or when hiding all but one or two, which is why I was excited to try the include and exclude features.
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 2 years ago
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- Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top Related StackOverflow Question
It happens automatically when you use the Vue plugin (
@storybook/vue). But you should also be able to do it by setting the.table.categoryproperty in an argType to your story as follows:See the documentation here: https://storybook.js.org/docs/react/writing-docs/doc-blocks#grouping
Here’s a silly workaround:
Surprising that this works. Those two lines really should have the same effect.