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ListText

MD · 1950B gzip budget

"A, B, and C" formatted correctly for the current locale via Intl.ListFormat.

Category
Internationalisation
Budget
md, several states or a live subscription
External runtime
React / React DOM only
axe fixtureSSR rendersource scanbundle budget

Preview

Live fixture
Preview locale
Aisha, Bo, and Chidi

Try the component here. Locale-aware formatting and direction follow the selected language; example content and labels are not automatically translated. Overlay demos use interactive launchers.

Install

npx shadcn@latest add https://gear5-ui.vercel.app/r/list-text.json

Copies the source into your project. Pulls in 3 shared registry items: format, use-locale, locale.

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Source & props

Edit on GitHub ↗

Prop types and inline documentation are included below. This is repository source; the installer rewrites shared imports for your project.

"use client";

import { listFormat } from "../lib/format";
import { useLocale } from "../lib/use-locale";

export interface ListTextProps {
  items: string[];
  /** "and" (conjunction, default) or "or" (disjunction). */
  type?: Intl.ListFormatOptions["type"];
}

/*
 * Rendered inside a `suppressHydrationWarning` span.
 *
 * `Intl` output is not byte-identical across ICU versions, and Node's ICU is
 * not the browser's. This exact call produces "Jan 1 <U+2009>–<U+2009> 5, 2026"
 * on Node and "Jan 1 <U+0020>–<U+0020> 5, 2026" in Chrome — visually
 * identical, different bytes — so every server-rendered use would throw a
 * hydration error in a consumer's app through no fault of theirs.
 *
 * This is the case React documents the escape hatch for. The suppression is
 * scoped to this one text node, so a genuine structural mismatch anywhere else
 * still reports normally.
 */

/**
 * "Aisha, Bo, and Chidi" in English; "Aisha, Bo und Chidi" in German (no
 * Oxford comma); "Aisha、Bo、Chidiさん" shaped correctly in Japanese — via
 * `Intl.ListFormat` rather than a hardcoded `join(", ")` plus an English-only
 * "and" appended at the end.
 */
export function ListText({ items, type = "conjunction" }: ListTextProps) {
  const { locale } = useLocale();
  return <span suppressHydrationWarning>{listFormat(locale, { type }).format(items)}</span>;
}

What CI checks

Quality contract
  • Bundled, minified and gzipped against its tier budget
  • Audited by axe in the state previewed above
  • Rendered through react-dom/server with no browser globals
  • Scanned for network calls, dangerous sinks, and unguarded animation