Skeleton

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 Skeleton — it needs no JavaScript, so the classes below are the whole story.

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

Root class skeleton, with 2 modifiers:

• .skeleton
• .skeleton-circle
• .skeleton-text

React

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

npm i @wizeworks/silicaui-react

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

export function SkeletonDemo() {
    return (
        <>
            <Section title="Shapes">
                <Row>
                    <Skeleton className="h-6 w-32" />
                    <Skeleton shape="circle" className="h-12 w-12" />
                    <Skeleton shape="text" className="w-40" />
                </Row>
            </Section>

            <Section title="Real use · loading card">
                <div className="flex max-w-sm flex-col gap-3 rounded-box border border-base-300 p-4">
                    <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
                        <Skeleton shape="circle" className="h-10 w-10" />
                        <div className="flex flex-1 flex-col gap-2">
                            <Skeleton shape="text" className="w-32" />
                            <Skeleton shape="text" className="w-20" />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <Skeleton className="h-32 w-full" />
                    <Skeleton shape="text" className="w-full" />
                    <Skeleton shape="text" className="w-2/3" />
                </div>
            </Section>
        </>
    );
}

Vanilla — node tree to HTML

Skeleton — lowers to <div>, 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("Skeleton", "skeleton", { /* 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 "skeleton skeleton-primary" rather than passing a colour as a prop.

Takes children

no

Hydrated by

nothing — this one is static markup