Measured entry

hextaui-scroll-area

scroll-effectminimal-flatmotion on file

A client-side React scroll container and optional scrollbar, distributed as a shadcn registry item. It wraps Radix Scroll Area primitives, uses Tailwind utility classes and a local cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge, and relies on theme tokens for border and focus-ring colors.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-scroll-area at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-scroll-area at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-scroll-area 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-scroll-area
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious1
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal36.8 KB (102.3 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeOK
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

Verdict

A practical Radix wrapper with clean responsive behavior and no provider requirement. It builds and mounts in both prepared and bare environments, but the keyboard-inaccessible scroll region is a meaningful accessibility defect that should be fixed before production use.

Use it if

  • You need a styled overflow container with custom vertical or horizontal scrollbars.
  • Your React interface already uses Tailwind utilities and Radix primitives.
  • You want a small source component that can be copied in and adjusted locally.

Skip it if

  • Keyboard accessibility must pass without modifying the viewport, because the tested scrollable region is not keyboard focusable.
  • You prefer native browser scrollbars with no Radix runtime dependency.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind and you do not want to translate its utility and theme-token styling.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-scroll-area
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-scroll-area, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installbuilds and mounts without the shadcn-style helpers
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add Radix Scroll Area, clsx, and tailwind-merge; provide the cn helper; configure Tailwind; map the border and ring theme tokens; replace the path alias if needed; and make the scrollable viewport keyboard focusable.

Source and credit

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License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-17

Alternatives

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