Slot text

A React component in Beamline's Content & display category.

Text and numbers that roll into their new value on reels, digit by digit from the right; other characters fade. Read as plain text by assistive tech.

Use it for

• A figure that changes now and then: a total, a price, a status word.

Not for

• Values changing several times a second (plain tabular text).

Anatomy

• isolated value root (content direction independent of page layout)
• reels
• sr-only value

States

• rest
• rolling
• RTL page (numeric order and content direction preserved)

Keyboard

• Not interactive

Motion

Reels roll over 700 ms with a 40 ms stagger; reduced motion swaps the value.

Props

Dependencies

motion

Import

import { SlotText } from "@/components/slot-text/slot-text";

Get it

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