Kbd

Plain HTML — CSS classes

The Tailwind v4 plugin. Works in any framework or none — Rails, Django, PHP, Go, a static file. This path is complete for Kbd — it needs no JavaScript, so the classes below are the whole story.

/* in your CSS */
@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "@wizeworks/silicaui";

Root class kbd, with 5 modifiers:

• .kbd
• .kbd-lg
• .kbd-md
• .kbd-sm
• .kbd-xl
• .kbd-xs

React

Typed components over those same classes, with behavior and accessibility from Base UI.

npm i @wizeworks/silicaui-react

import { Kbd } from "@wizeworks/silicaui-react";

Props

Source of the demo above

The exact file that renders the examples above, so it can never drift from them. It imports a few of this site’s own layout helpers (../lib/…), so read it for the component calls rather than copying it whole.

import { Kbd } from "@wizeworks/silicaui-react";
import { Section, Row } from "../lib/Section";
import { SIZES } from "../lib/data";

export function KbdDemo() {
    return (
        <>
            <Section title="Sizes">
                <Row>
                    {SIZES.map((size) => (
                        <Kbd key={size} size={size}>
                            {size}
                        </Kbd>
                    ))}
                </Row>
            </Section>

            <Section title="Real use · shortcuts inline">
                <div className="flex flex-col gap-2 text-sm">
                    <p>
                        Press <Kbd>⌘</Kbd> <Kbd>K</Kbd> to open the command palette.
                    </p>
                    <p>
                        <Kbd>Ctrl</Kbd> + <Kbd>Shift</Kbd> + <Kbd>P</Kbd> on Windows.
                    </p>
                    <p>
                        <Kbd>Esc</Kbd> to close any dialog.
                    </p>
                </div>
            </Section>
        </>
    );
}

Vanilla — node tree to HTML

Kbd — lowers to <kbd>, carrying props.text as its content. Build a node tree, project it with toHtml(), and let the zero-dependency runtime hydrate it. This is the path for generated or user-authored documents — a site builder, CMS output, a static export.

npm i @wizeworks/silicaui-html @wizeworks/silicaui-behaviors

import { atom, toHtml } from "@wizeworks/silicaui-html";

const node = atom("Kbd", "kbd", { /* props */ });
const markup = toHtml(node);

Styling on this path is the class string in the second argument — the same classes as the Plain HTML section above. There is no color prop here; write "kbd kbd-primary" rather than passing a colour as a prop.

Takes children

no

Hydrated by

nothing — this one is static markup