Measured entry

hextaui-field

cardminimal-flat

A composable React and TypeScript field-layout set for legends, labels, descriptions, separators, grouped controls, and validation messages. It ships as a shadcn registry item and assumes Tailwind classes, a local cn helper, class-variance-authority, plus shadcn Label and Separator components backed by Radix.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of hextaui-field at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-field at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-field 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-field
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowflagged at 375
Axe critical1
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal33.7 KB (99.2 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 useful field-composition layer for an existing shadcn codebase, with flexible layouts and practical error rendering. It needs a shadcn-style setup, and teams should fix the ARIA issue and narrow-screen demo wrapper before shipping it unchanged.

Use it if

  • You already use shadcn conventions and want a consistent structure around mixed form controls.
  • You need vertical, horizontal, or container-responsive field arrangements without adopting a full form library.
  • You want validation text that can accept either custom content or a deduplicated list of form errors.

Skip it if

  • Your project does not use Tailwind or shadcn-style aliases and you do not want to recreate that infrastructure.
  • You need a component that passes an accessibility audit unchanged, since the current implementation triggers an unsupported ARIA attribute finding.
  • You need the supplied card example to fit narrow screens without adjusting its fixed-width wrapper.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-field
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-label, @radix-ui/react-separator, 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 React, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, clsx, tailwind-merge, the Radix label and separator packages, a compatible cn utility, path-alias support, and local Label and Separator wrappers. Ensure your Tailwind setup recognizes the container-query, data-attribute, and relational selector classes used here.

Source and credit

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License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-16

Alternatives

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