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hextaui-dropdown-menu

dropdownminimal-flat

A copy-in React dropdown menu built on Radix Dropdown Menu primitives. It ships as a shadcn registry TypeScript component with trigger, item, checkbox, radio, submenu, label, separator, and shortcut exports. Its styling expects Tailwind utilities, project theme tokens, a cn helper, and Lucide icons.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of hextaui-dropdown-menu at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-dropdown-menu at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-dropdown-menu at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for hextaui-dropdown-menu
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal61.9 KB (127.4 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

spawnSync npx ETIMEDOUT

Verdict

A capable, complete Radix wrapper for teams already using shadcn conventions. The verified harness build and mount succeeded, but the bare-project check did not, so it needs a shadcn-style setup rather than being dropped into an unprepared React app.

Use it if

  • You need an accessible account or action menu with keyboard behavior handled by Radix.
  • Your interface needs checkbox items, radio choices, nested menus, or destructive actions in one consistent API.
  • Your project already follows shadcn conventions and you want source code that can be customized locally.

Skip it if

  • You want a dependency-free dropdown or a component delivered as a standalone package.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind or shadcn theme tokens and you do not want to translate the styling.
  • You only need a simple navigation link list and do not need menu selection semantics.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-dropdown-menu
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add Radix Dropdown Menu and Lucide React, provide the cn class-merging helper, configure Tailwind, define the referenced color and border theme tokens, and include the animation utilities used by the open and closed states. Preserve the client-component boundary where your framework requires it.

Source and credit

This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.

Author repository

github.com/preetsuthar17/HextaUI
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-16

Alternatives

Other published entries for the dropdown pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.