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hextaui-select

inputminimal-flat

A client-side compound select built on Radix Select, with a trigger, grouped menu, labels, separators, item indicators, and scroll controls. It ships as a shadcn registry TSX file styled with Tailwind utilities and relies on a local cn helper plus Lucide icons.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of hextaui-select at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-select at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of hextaui-select 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-select
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowflagged at 375
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal61.7 KB (127.2 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 686ms
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "lucide-react" from "<sandbox>re-c7bede632896/src/cut/components/ui/select.tsx".

Verdict

A solid Radix wrapper for Tailwind-based systems: it builds and mounts cleanly, needs no provider, and the tested composition reports no accessibility violations. The narrow-screen overflow comes from the demo's fixed-width wrapper, so adoption is reasonable if you make the surrounding layout responsive.

Use it if

  • You need a keyboard-aware custom select with grouped options, labels, separators, disabled states, and portal positioning.
  • Your app already uses Tailwind theme tokens and a cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.
  • You want composable Radix primitives without introducing an app-level provider.

Skip it if

  • A native select is sufficient and minimizing client code or dependencies matters more than custom menu styling.
  • Your design system does not expose the Tailwind color, border, ring, animation, and sizing utilities used by the source.
  • You need the supplied demo composition to fit narrow screens without adapting its fixed-width wrapper.
  • You need search, multiple selection, or asynchronous option loading without building those behaviors yourself.

Install

Installation record for hextaui-select
Declared dependencies@radix-ui/react-select, 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 Select, Lucide React, clsx, and tailwind-merge; provide or rewrite the @/lib/utils cn helper; and map the Tailwind theme tokens and state-animation utilities used in the classes. No provider is required.

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
2026-08-17

Alternatives

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