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Expanding Icon Tabs
curatedfreemicrokit/expanding-icon-tabs
An icon bar where the chosen tab widens to reveal its label and the rest of the row slides over to make room.
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npx shadcn@latest add https://microkit.co/r/expanding-icon-tabs.jsonnpm deps: lucide-react
Our notes
Icon toolbar whose chosen item widens to show its label while siblings slide over; ←/→ move focus, Escape and outside-click collapse it, role=toolbar, motion-reduce handled. Good for compact app toolbars and view switchers. Hard-coded items and light-dark() hex colours — rebuild with your icons and tokens.- Source
- MicroKit
- Kind
- component
- Categories
- tabs, navigation
- Use as
- recipe — technique you apply to your own markup
- Applies to
- tabsnavigationbutton
- Motion
- on state · subtle · css · low cost · respects reduced motion
- Tags
- css, click, toolbar, hard-coded-colours
- Licence
- MIT ("MIT License — Copyright (c) 2026 Henrique Barone", github.com/henriquegpb/microkit). README credits note that some interactions are adapted from publicly shared examples and Webflow exports.
- Live demo
- microkit.co
- Docs
- microkit.co
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