Motion Expandable Card
Grid card that expands in place to show its details.
Choose the primitives library your project already uses. Both look the same: your theme, not the variant, controls colors, shape, type and motion.
About this motion
What it's for
- Grid card that expands in place to show its details.
- Grid of cards that expand to show details with animation.
- Expandable card grid where one card grows to fill the row.
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Includes
- Card grid
- Expand in place
- Spans the grid
- Siblings reflow
- Layout and layoutid
- Disclosure pattern
- Focus to close and back
- Escape closes
Works with
- Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
- React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4 in Next.js (App Router), Vite, React Router or TanStack Start, installed with the agentic-ui or shadcn CLI
- Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode
Install
Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.
agentic-ui add motion-expandable-cardnpx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-expandable-cardUsed in
A standalone component: drop it into any screen.
- Type
- Motion
- Variants
- Radix UI and Base UI
- Themes
- Light and dark
- Widths
- Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.
- Motion
- Animated, with a reduced-motion fallback
- npm packages
motion- Registry dependencies
lib-motion- Files
9 files
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/motion-expandable-card/motion-expandable-card.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/styles/motion-expandable-card.css
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/motion-expandable-card/expanded-model.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/motion-expandable-card/default-items.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/motion-expandable-card/card-view.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/_shared/layout-tags.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/_shared/types.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/_shared/policy-options.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-expandable-card/_shared/apply-defaults.ts
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