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Skeleton

XS · 350B gzip budget

A placeholder shape that reserves space for content that has not arrived yet.

Category
Feedback & status
Budget
xs, static display primitive
External runtime
React / React DOM only
axe fixtureSSR rendersource scanbundle budget

Preview

Live fixture
Preview locale

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/skeleton.json

Copies the source into your project. Pulls in 1 shared registry item: cn.

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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.

import { cn } from "../lib/cn";

export interface SkeletonProps {
  className?: string;
  /** Fixed width/height so the real content's box is reserved exactly. */
  width?: string | number;
  height?: string | number;
}

/**
 * A placeholder shape for content that has not arrived yet. `aria-hidden`:
 * the shape itself carries no information, and the loading state should
 * already be announced once by whatever boundary is showing this (see
 * `AsyncBoundary`) — a screen reader does not need to hear "loading" once per
 * skeleton row.
 */
export function Skeleton({ className, width, height }: SkeletonProps) {
  return (
    <div
      aria-hidden="true"
      style={{ width, height }}
      className={cn(
        "animate-pulse rounded-md bg-neutral-200 motion-reduce:animate-none dark:bg-neutral-800",
        className,
      )}
    />
  );
}

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
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