Split Flap
Airport departure board: every cell flips through the drum until it lands on its letter.
- Category: Text
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Split Flap
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
text | string | — | |
length | number | — | Pad or trim to this many cells. |
speed | number | 30 | ms per flip. |
About Split Flap
Split Flap is the airport departure board: every cell flips through the drum of characters until it lands on its letter, with the click-clack rhythm of the real thing.
Split Flap is a text animation 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 Split Flap
- Travel and transport sites.
- Countdowns and launch boards.
- Scoreboards and live numbers.
- Retro and industrial brands.
How it works
Each cell steps through the character set with top and bottom halves flipping in 3D. Cells settle at different times, and the final text is plain for screen readers.
The real text stays in the page for screen readers and search engines; the animated letters are decorative copies marked aria-hidden. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Split Flap
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 length, speed live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- text (string).
- length (number): Pad or trim to this many cells.
- speed (number, default 30): ms per flip.
Goes well with Split Flap
Split Flap is already composed into a ready-made section, so you can see it in context or install the whole block.
- Hero Event: Hero section
- Scramble Text: React scramble text: characters cycle through glyphs before locking in
- Rotating Text: React rotating text that rolls between words letter by letter and resizes smoothly
- Highlight Text: React highlight text: a marker sweep, hand-drawn underline or scribbled circle on scroll
- Text Morph: React text morph: shared letters glide to new spots while the rest blur in and out
- Scroll Text: React scroll text: words light up one by one as the paragraph scrolls by
Install Split Flap
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/split-flapSplit Flap 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 split-flap.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
- How do I install Split Flap?
- Split Flap is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/split-flap. It copies split-flap.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Split Flap free for commercial use?
- Split Flap 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 Split Flap 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 Split Flap?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Split Flap's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.