Card

Preview

Rendered from the story the storybook (a11y) CI gate runs axe against — the preview can't show something that hasn't been verified.

Install

Two equivalent paths — the URL works in any shadcn-CLI setup; the alias works once you've registered @interlace in your components.json.

npx shadcn@latest add https://ds.interlace.tools/r/card.json

npx shadcn@latest add @interlace/card

Import

7 named exports — pull the parts you need.

import { Card, CardAction, CardContent, CardDescription, CardFooter, CardHeader, CardTitle } from '@/components/ui/card';

Anatomy

Extracted from the primitive's JSDoc header. The source is the only documentation that can't drift.

Card                             (Box — surface=card, radius=lg, border, flex-col gap-6 py-6)
    ├─ CardHeader                  (grid — @container/card-header, px-6)
    │    ├─ CardTitle
    │    ├─ CardDescription
    │    └─ CardAction             (col 2, spans both header rows)
    ├─ CardContent                 (px-6)
    └─ CardFooter                  (flex, px-6)
The header is a one-column grid until a `CardAction` is present:
`has-data-[slot=card-action]` switches it to `[1fr_auto]`, so the action
column is created by the child that needs it rather than by a prop.

API reference

Parsed from the type declarations in the source — the same file the install writes into your tree, so this table can't drift from the component you get.

Skeleton

Pass loading and the component renders a shape-matched <Skeleton /> in its own place — same box, so nothing reflows when the data lands. Below is the same story with loading={true}.

<Card loading={isPending} />

Accessibility

Every story for this component is rendered headlessly and checked with axe-core (wcag2aa, wcag22aa, best-practice, ACT) on every PR. That gate has no continue-on-error, so what ships has zero known violations.

What follows is what static analysis can see. Axe cannot press a key and never sees an overlay open, so the operable-without-a-mouse claim lives in Behavior instead, where the keyboard path is replayed step by step.

Focus + keyboard behaviour

Native element semantics — no interaction layer to get wrong.

Focus ring (WCAG 2.2 SC 2.4.13)

Not focusable — no focus indicator required.

Reduced motion

No animation to gate.

ARIA in the source

None — semantics come from the element or the Base UI primitive rather than hand-written ARIA.

Examples

1 more state from the same story file.

R-rule compliance

Every primitive in @interlace/ui models to the portable 26-rule floor enforced by the componentApi ESLint preset. The cells below pin exactly where each rule applies in this file.

Dependencies

Base UI primitive

Native / no Base UI dependency

Lucide icons

none

NPM dependencies

none

Registry dependencies

• @interlace/theme
• @interlace/box
• @interlace/cn
• @interlace/skeleton

Source

The full implementation — components/ui/card.tsx once installed.

import * as React from 'react';

// @interlace/card v1.2.0 — Interlace design system.
// Docs, props and live preview: https://ds.interlace.tools/c/card
// What changed since: https://ds.interlace.tools/c/card#history
// Generated banner — keep it, the upgrade diff reads this version.

/**
 * @interlace/ui — Card
 *
 * A bordered, rounded content surface with header / title / description /
 * action / content / footer parts. The surface, radius and border come from
 * `Box`; the card owns only its column layout, its padding and its shadow.
 *
 * A `loading` card renders the shape-matched `Skeleton variant="card"`
 * instead, so a card grid does not shift when the data lands.
 *
 * ## Anatomy
 *
 *   Card                             (Box — surface=card, radius=lg, border, flex-col gap-6 py-6)

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Registry JSON

The raw registry record — what the shadcn CLI fetches.