Depth Parallax Words
Depth Parallax Words is a React and Tailwind CSS text component from SmoothUI, licensed MIT. Copy it and paste it into your project.
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Depth Parallax Words is a React and Tailwind CSS text component from SmoothUI, licensed MIT. Copy it and paste it into your project.
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Needs
npm i motion
Licence
This component comes from SmoothUI and is redistributed under the MIT licence, which permits commercial use. The copyright notice travels with the code.
Depth Parallax Words
"use client";
import { motion, useInView, useReducedMotion } from "motion/react";
import { useRef } from "react";
/**
* DepthParallaxWords — per-word depth motion with scale, vertical drift and blur for layered readability.
* From the animate-text catalog (`depth-parallax-words`).
*/
export interface DepthParallaxWordsProps {
children: string;
className?: string;
/** Delay before the animation starts, in milliseconds. */
delay?: number;
/** Per-word stagger, in milliseconds. */
stagger?: number;
/** Animate only once the text scrolls into view. */
triggerOnView?: boolean;
}
const DURATION_S = 0.7;
const MS = 1000;
const EASE = [0.22, 1, 0.36, 1] as const;
export default function DepthParallaxWords({
children,
className = "",
delay = 0,
stagger = 70,
triggerOnView = false,
}: DepthParallaxWordsProps) {
const ref = useRef<HTMLSpanElement>(null);
const inView = useInView(ref, { once: true });
const shouldReduceMotion = useReducedMotion();
const play = (!triggerOnView || inView) && !shouldReduceMotion;
const words = children.split(" ");
return (
<span aria-label={children} className={className} ref={ref}>
{words.map((word, index) => (
// biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noArrayIndexKey: words have no stable id
<span key={index}>
<motion.span
animate={
play
? { filter: "blur(0px)", opacity: 1, scale: 1, y: 0 }
: undefined
}
aria-hidden="true"
initial={
shouldReduceMotion
? { opacity: 1 }
: { filter: "blur(3px)", opacity: 0, scale: 0.92, y: 18 }
}
style={{ display: "inline-block", whiteSpace: "pre" }}
transition={
shouldReduceMotion
? { duration: 0 }
: {
delay: delay / MS + (index * stagger) / MS,
duration: DURATION_S,
ease: EASE,
}
}
>
{word}
</motion.span>
{index < words.length - 1 && (
<span
aria-hidden="true"
style={{ display: "inline-block", whiteSpace: "pre" }}
>
{" "}
</span>
)}
</span>
))}
</span>
);
}