Skeleton Variants

Single source of truth for the `<Skeleton variant>` discriminated union. Every entry maps to a Tailwind shape class set that paints a placeholder matching the corresponding primitive / pattern / template.

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Skeleton Variants — live rendercontracts-skeleton-variants--variants ↗

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.

Via shadcn URL

npx shadcn@latest add https://ds.interlace.tools/r/skeleton-variants.json

With the @interlace alias

npx shadcn@latest add @interlace/skeleton-variants

History

This component is at v1.7.0, first shipped in @interlace/ui 1.0.0. The version is stamped as a banner into the file the install writes, so the copy in your tree says which one you have — compare it with the number above before deciding whether to re-run the install.

No release note names this component yet. It shipped with the release above and has not changed since — see the full changelog for what moved elsewhere in the DS.

Import

3 named exports — pull the parts you need.

Public API

import { SKELETON_VARIANTS, SKELETON_VARIANT_CLASSES, SkeletonVariant } from '@/components/ui/skeleton-variants';

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.

Dependencies

Base UI primitive: Native / no Base UI dependency
Lucide icons: none
NPM dependencies: none
Registry dependencies: @interlace/theme

Source

The full implementation — components/ui/skeleton-variants.ts once installed.

186 lines · TypeScript

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export const SKELETON_VARIANTS = [
  // ── Generic shapes (no specific primitive — reusable) ────────────────
  'rect',
  'circle',
  'text',
  'paragraph',

  // ── Primitive-shaped (matches a primitive's resting silhouette) ──────
  'avatar',
  'badge',
  'breadcrumb',
  'button',
  'card',
  'code-block',
  'input',
  'menu',
  'pagination',
  'prose',
  'tabs',
  'tag',

…166 more lines…

Registry JSON

The raw registry record — what the shadcn CLI fetches.

/r/skeleton-variants.json