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What: Closes #12636

  • Adds PageFooter component, similar to PageHeader.
  • Adds isPlain and footer props to Page.
  • Updates example for new component & props.
  • Adds tests.

Updates header example to include footer & plain modifier notes. LMK if we'd rather have separate examples, I just thought they all served towards custom content in Page.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for plain page layouts through the isPlain option.
    • Added footer content support to the Page component.
    • Added a configurable PageFooter component with custom element and styling options.
    • Made PageFooter available through the public package API.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Page examples and guidance for custom headers, footers, and plain layouts.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for plain page behavior and PageFooter rendering and customization.

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The Page component now supports plain layouts and footer content. PageFooter is exported, tested, and documented. Package versions and prerelease dependencies were updated.

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Page layout support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Page API and rendering
packages/react-core/src/components/Page/Page.tsx, packages/*/package.json
Page adds isPlain and footer props. It applies the plain modifier and renders footer content after the page body. Package versions and prerelease dependencies were updated.
PageFooter component and validation
packages/react-core/src/components/Page/index.ts, packages/react-core/src/components/Page/__tests__/*
PageFooter is exported through the Page index. Tests cover footer rendering, customization, prop forwarding, footer integration, and plain mode.
Page footer example and documentation
packages/react-core/src/components/Page/examples/*
The example and documentation describe PageFooter, the footer prop, and isPlain usage.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PageConsumer
  participant Page
  participant PageFooter
  PageConsumer->>Page: Pass isPlain and footer
  Page->>Page: Apply plain modifier and render page content
  Page->>PageFooter: Render footer content after page content
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a182f

Page now supports plain layouts and footer content through the new PageFooter API, with documentation and focused tests covering the behavior. No merge-blocking risk is evident.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The Page changes match the linked issue, but the pull request also includes unrelated package version and dependency updates in react-docs, react-icons, react-styles, and react-tokens. The react-icons… Remove the unrelated package version and dependency updates, or provide linked issue scope that explicitly requires these release and dependency changes.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the two main changes: adding PageFooter and adding isPlain support.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request satisfies issue #12636. It adds the isPlain prop and example, adds the PageFooter wrapper and example, and adds tests for both features.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 6…
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The Page changes match the linked issue, but the pull request also includes unrelated package version and dependency updates in react-docs, react-icons, react-styles, and react-tokens. The react-icons @rhds/icons update is also unrelated to the Page objectives.

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In `@packages/react-core/src/components/Page/examples/Page.md`:
- Line 42: Update the Page documentation sentence to use “When using a custom
<PageHeader> and <PageFooter>” and change “and removes” to “and remove” so the
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In `@packages/react-core/src/components/Page/PageFooter.tsx`:
- Around line 5-10: Update the PageFooter prop documentation in PageFooter.tsx
to describe footer content, footer classes, and a default component of footer
instead of header/div wording; rename the relevant PageFooter test in
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Looks good overall - just some comments about header vs. footer, etc. You also need a rebase since Gabi's PR merged. Woo Gabi!

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breadcrumbProps?: PageBreadcrumbProps;
/** Enables children to fill the available vertical space. Child page sections or groups that should fill should be passed the isFilled property. */
isContentFilled?: boolean;
/** Flag indicating the page has non-PatternFly elements for header and footer and should be rendered plainly. Use PageHeader and PageFooter to wrap custom header and footer content to ensure the layout is maintained. */

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It can also be used without these technically I think? It modifies the page to remove the content area background and overflow scroll.

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kmcfaul force-pushed the page-separate-header branch from 6052551 to cd18b6d Compare September 9, 2026 16:01

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Thank you so much! It looks good to me. :)

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const footer = screen.getByText('Custom footer');

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For all new tests in this PR, let's use getByRole("contentinfo") instead of getByText if we can

import styles from '@patternfly/react-styles/css/components/Page/page';
import { PageFooter } from '../PageFooter';

test('Renders children', () => {

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Let's also add the "Renders without children" test


test('Renders as a footer by default', () => {
render(<PageFooter>Footer content</PageFooter>);
expect(screen.getByText('Footer content').tagName).toBe('FOOTER');

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We could probably get away with removing this test if we update the getByText matcher to getByRole, since that matcher will implictly be testing that it's rendering with the footer tag.

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I left it since I don't see the harm but updated the matcher.

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I pushed the changes @thatblindgeye since @kmcfaul is out and I want to get this in. Let me know if you want any other changes!

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lgtm!

IMO our examples should match, though we can follow up on that. They're pretty different at the moment. Core has 3 examples - custom header, footer, and plain, showing them like 3 separate features. Then there is a plain demo with the traditional masthead (not the generic "page header") and footer. I think the masthead in core's plain example and demo should change to a custom header since that's probably always the use case with a plain page, I just didn't have anything to put in there so I used a masthead.

I don't feel strongly about either way - just it is worth noting you could use the page as it is and have a custom header or a footer. I imagine some people have custom solutions for a footer with a banner or other things like that.

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@mcoker - Let me merge these and I'll put up a PR for the example parity and tag you if that works.

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rebeccaalpert merged commit 6e3dd0e into patternfly:main Sep 10, 2026
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