Liquid Glass
Glass surface with an animated liquid gradient sheen. Install Liquid Glass from the VLLNT UI registry with the shadcn CLI.
Glass surface with an animated liquid gradient sheen. Part of the utility family in VLLNT UI, it ships as a machine-readable registry entry — copy the source directly into your app with the shadcn CLI and own it, no runtime dependency on a component library.
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Installation
Add Liquid Glass to your project with the shadcn CLI. The source lands in your codebase, ready to adapt:
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add https://ui.vllnt.ai/r/liquid-glass.jsonSource
import * as React from "react";
import { cn } from "../../lib/utils";
/** Props for {@link LiquidGlass}. */
export type LiquidGlassProps = React.ComponentPropsWithoutRef<"div">;
/**
* Glass surface with a looping liquid sheen drifting across the backdrop.
*
* Respects `prefers-reduced-motion`: the sheen stays still.
*
* @example
* ```tsx
* <LiquidGlass className="p-6">Content</LiquidGlass>
* ```
*/
export const LiquidGlass = ({
children,
className,
ref,
...props
}: LiquidGlassProps & { ref?: React.Ref<HTMLDivElement> }) => {
return (
<div
className={cn(
"relative overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-border/50 bg-card/50 backdrop-blur-md",
className,
)}
ref={ref}
{...props}
>
<span
aria-hidden="true"
className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-0 motion-reduce:animate-none"
style={{
animation: "vllnt-liquid-shift 8s ease-in-out infinite",
background:
"linear-gradient(120deg, transparent, oklch(var(--primary) / 0.18), transparent, oklch(var(--accent) / 0.18), transparent)",
backgroundSize: "200% 200%",
}}
/>
<div className="relative z-10">{children}</div>
</div>
);
};
LiquidGlass.displayName = "LiquidGlass";
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