Motion Typing Indicator
Assistant or copilot preparing a reply before the first token.
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
- Assistant or copilot preparing a reply before the first token.
- Customer typing in a support inbox (compact list view).
- Several teammates typing in a team channel.
For Partial text is already arriving, use Motion Streaming Text. For Waits with measurable progress, use Motion Progress Animated.
Includes
- Typing dots
- Variants dots pulse wave
- Named typers label
- Stalled wait state
- Elapsed seconds
- Announced status
- Personality tempo
- Reduced motion fallback
Works with
- Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
- React 19, Next.js App Router and Tailwind CSS 4, installed with the 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-typing-indicatornpx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-typing-indicatorUsed 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
- None beyond your project's React and Next.js
- Registry dependencies
lib-motion- Files
4 files
- components/agentic-ui/motion-typing-indicator/typing-indicator.css
- components/agentic-ui/motion-typing-indicator/index.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-typing-indicator/typing-indicator.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-typing-indicator/types.ts
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