Drop Morph
A drop zone that becomes the image you dropped, landing with a tip and a settle.
- Category: Transitions
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Drop Morph
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
onFile | (file: File) => void | — | |
sample | string | — | Offer a sample image. |
About Drop Morph
Drop Morph is a drop zone that becomes the image you dropped, landing with a tip and a settle.
Drop Morph is an UI transition for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.
When to use Drop Morph
- Avatar uploads.
- Image editors.
- Single-file uploads.
- Onboarding.
How it works
The zone and image share a layout animation, with a spring tilt on landing.
The change it animates is also announced to assistive tech, and the motion is short enough never to block what the user wants to do. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Drop Morph
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change sample live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- sample (string): Offer a sample image.
Goes well with Drop Morph
These transitions pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Card Resize: A React box that springs to the size of its content
- Notification Badge: A React notification badge that pops in and slides new counts in
- Page Transition: React page transitions: native-feeling push and pop between views
- Error Shake: A React error shake: a decaying head shake for wrong input
- Arrow Link: A React arrow link whose chevron grows a stem on hover, CSS only
Install Drop Morph
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/drop-morphDrop Morph is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 300 Pro components, 107 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies drop-morph.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.
You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.
See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup
Frequently asked questions
- Does drop morph upload the file?
- No. It gives you the file through onFile and turns into its preview; you send it wherever you like, so it works with any storage or upload API.
- How do I install Drop Morph?
- Drop Morph is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/drop-morph. It copies drop-morph.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Drop Morph free for commercial use?
- Drop Morph needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
- Does Drop Morph work with Next.js?
- Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
- Can an AI coding agent install Drop Morph?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Drop Morph's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.