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Components/ForgeUI/text-shimmer

Text Shimmer

forgeui/text-shimmer
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A React component that creates an animated text shimmer effect using Motion, customizable by tag, duration, spread, delay, and repeat delay.

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Install it

npx shadcn@latest add https://forgeui.in/r/text-shimmer.json

Source

registry/forgeui/text-shimmer.tsxforgeui.in/r/text-shimmer.json
1"use client";
2
3import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
4import { motion } from "motion/react";
5import React, { useMemo, type JSX } from "react";
6
7export type TextShimmerProps = {
8 children: string;
9 as?: React.ElementType;
10 className?: string;
11 duration?: number;
12 spread?: number;
13 delay?: number;
14 repeatDelay?: number;
15};
16
17const TextShimmer = ({
18 children,
19 as: Component = "p",
20 className,
21 duration = 2,
22 spread = 2,
23 delay = 0,
24 repeatDelay = 0,
25}: TextShimmerProps) => {
26 const MotionComponent = motion.create(
27 Component as keyof JSX.IntrinsicElements,
28 );
29
30 const dynamicSpread = useMemo(() => {
31 return children.length * spread;
32 }, [children, spread]);
33
34 return (
35 <MotionComponent
36 className={cn(
37 "relative inline-block bg-size-[250%_100%,auto] bg-clip-text",
38 "text-transparent [--base-color:#a1a1aa] [--base-gradient-color:#000]",
39 "[background-repeat:no-repeat,padding-box] [--bg:linear-gradient(90deg,#0000_calc(50%-var(--spread)),var(--base-gradient-color),#0000_calc(50%+var(--spread)))]",
40 "dark:[--base-color:#71717a] dark:[--base-gradient-color:#ffffff] dark:[--bg:linear-gradient(90deg,#0000_calc(50%-var(--spread)),var(--base-gradient-color),#0000_calc(50%+var(--spread)))]",
41 className,
42 )}
43 initial={{ backgroundPosition: "105% center" }}
44 animate={{ backgroundPosition: "-5% center" }}
45 transition={{
46 repeat: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
47 duration,
48 ease: "linear",
49 delay,
50 repeatDelay,
51 }}
52 style={
53 {
54 "--spread": `${dynamicSpread}px`,
55 backgroundImage: `var(--bg), linear-gradient(var(--base-color), var(--base-color))`,
56 } as React.CSSProperties
57 }
58 >
59 {children}
60 </MotionComponent>
61 );
62};
63
64export default React.memo(TextShimmer);

Files it writes

  • registry/forgeui/text-shimmer.tsx

Facts

Registry
ForgeUI
Type
registry:ui
Access
Free
Files written
1
Licence
NOASSERTION
First indexed
2026-08-01
Last confirmed
today

Go to the source

Docs on ForgeUI forgeui.in AmanShakya0018/forgeui on GitHub Raw registry item This item as JSON

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