Jelly Radio
A radio group of chips where the chosen one swells like jelly and barges its neighbours outward before everything wobbles back into line. Arrow keys move the choice.
- Category: React Input Components
- Licence: Free, MIT
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Jelly Radio
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
options | string[] | — | |
value / defaultValue | string | options[0] | |
onValueChange | (v: string) => void | — | |
label | string | — |
About Jelly Radio
Jelly Radio turns a choice into a small physical moment: the chosen chip swells and barges its neighbours outward, then everything wobbles back into line. Arrow keys move the choice, just like a native radio group.
Jelly Radio is an input component 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 Jelly Radio
- Billing period and plan pickers.
- Filters for date ranges.
- Size and variant selectors.
- Playful settings in consumer apps.
How it works
It is a radiogroup of radio buttons with arrow-key handling. The wobble is driven imperatively on each chip, so the focused element never remounts and focus stays put, and reduced motion swaps the squash for a plain highlight.
It is a real form control: it has an accessible name, works with the keyboard alone, shows a visible focus ring and announces its state to screen readers. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Jelly Radio
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
Style it with className like any other element. It only uses your theme's tokens, so it follows light and dark mode without extra work.
- options (string[]).
- value / defaultValue (string, default options[0]).
- label (string).
Goes well with Jelly Radio
These inputs pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Range Slider: Six animated React range sliders on one accessible core: inline, tick, fluid, wave, bubble and ruler
- Button: An animated React button with six variants, spring press feedback and a width-stable loading state
- Switch: An animated React toggle switch whose thumb stretches when pressed, like a real switch
- Checkbox: An animated React checkbox: the check draws itself in, the box pops, indeterminate morphs to a dash
- Radio Group: An animated React radio group with roving focus and a highlight that glides between card options
Install Jelly Radio
npx shadcn@latest add https://charcoalui.com/r/jelly-radio.jsonJelly Radio is free and MIT licensed. The command copies jelly-radio.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge; you can also copy the source from the Code tab by hand.
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install Jelly Radio?
- Run npx shadcn@latest add https://charcoalui.com/r/jelly-radio.json. The shadcn CLI copies jelly-radio.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge. You can also copy the source from this page by hand.
- Is Jelly Radio free for commercial use?
- Yes. Jelly Radio is MIT licensed: use it in any personal or commercial project and change it however you like.
- Does Jelly Radio 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 Jelly Radio?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Jelly Radio's props and source and get_install_command returns the exact command.