# Conversation

A React component in [Beamline](https://beamline.io/)'s [AI & agents](https://beamline.io/components/ai) category. Live demo: https://beamline.io/components/conversation

The scrolling column of a conversation: follows new content while you are at the bottom, stops when you scroll up to read, and offers a way back; shared by the agent conversation and the people chat.

## Use it for

- The message column of any chat: agent conversations (with [message](https://beamline.io/components/message) and [response](https://beamline.io/components/response)) and people chat ([chat-thread](https://beamline.io/components/chat-thread) builds on it).

## Not for

- A feed of events ([timeline](https://beamline.io/components/timeline)).
- A plain scrolling region ([scroll-area](https://beamline.io/components/scroll-area)).

## Anatomy

- Conversation (scroll element; role log, named by aria-label; aria-busy while an answer arrives)
- ConversationContent (reading column, --conversation-width, default 720px)
- ConversationScrollButton (Jump to latest)
- ConversationEmptyState (title, description, icon, starter action)
- useConversation() (isAtBottom, scrollToBottom)

## States

- following the bottom
- reading history (jump button shown)
- busy (an answer is streaming)
- empty

## Keyboard

- The log scrolls with the keyboard like any scroller; Jump to latest is a button with its own name.

## Motion

New content follows with a smooth scroll (instant under reduced motion); the jump button arrives in --motion-in and leaves in --motion-out, rising 6px (no rise under reduced motion).

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Conversation: busy` | `boolean` | — | aria-busy while an answer streams, so assistive tech reads it once settled. |
| `Conversation: …StickToBottom props` | `initial, resize, aria-label …` | — | initial/resize default to smooth (instant with reduced motion). |
| `ConversationScrollButton: label` | `string` | — | Default "Jump to latest". |
| `ConversationEmptyState: title / description / icon / action` | `ReactNode` | — |  |
| `useConversation()` | `() => { isAtBottom, scrollToBottom }` | — | Inside a Conversation: take the reader to the latest message (after they send). |
| `style / ref` | `CSSProperties / native Ref` | — |  |
| `classNames` | `ConversationClassNames; ConversationScrollButtonClassNames` | — |  |

## Built from

- button
- [empty-state](https://beamline.io/components/empty-state)

## Dependencies

`use-stick-to-bottom`, `lucide-react`, `motion`

## Import

```tsx
import { ConversationContent, Conversation, ConversationEmptyState, ConversationScrollButton } from "@/components/conversation/conversation";
```

## Get it

Conversation is part of Beamline: 190 React components and screens your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) installs into your app through Beamline's MCP server, as a ready-built package or as plain React source you can change. $49 one payment (regular $200), no subscription, a year of updates, one licence for your whole team. [Get Beamline](https://beamline.io/checkout?pack=complete) · [Connect your agent](https://beamline.io/connect)

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