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Typewriter Fill Skeleton
Skeletons & Shimmers

Typewriter Fill Skeleton

Text placeholder that writes itself in rather than shimmering — each bar grows from zero width behind a blue caret that hands off to the line below, so the card fills top to bottom like typed copy.

Skeletons & Shimmerstypewritercaretskeletonplaceholdersequential
lines of CSS
87lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
Backdrop
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typewriter-fill-skeleton-15883.css
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 {
  display: grid;
  gap: 9px;
  width: 236px;
  padding: 0.85rem 0.9rem 1rem;
  border-radius: 0.6rem;
  background: #101a2e;
  border: 1px solid #253049;
  font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
}
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .hd {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.5rem;
  margin-bottom: 2px;
}
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .hd i {
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #2a3b5f;
}
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .hd span {
  display: block;
  width: 96px;
  height: 8px;
  border-radius: 4px;
  background: #33456b;
}
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .ln { height: 8px; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l1 { width: 92%; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l2 { width: 100%; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l3 { width: 100%; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l4 { width: 78%; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l5 { width: 88%; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .ln i {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  width: 0;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: 4px;
  background: #24344f;
  animation: fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882-type 3s linear infinite;
}
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .ln i::after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  right: -4px;
  top: -2px;
  width: 2px;
  height: calc(100% + 4px);
  border-radius: 1px;
  background: #38bdf8;
  opacity: 0;
  animation: fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882-caret 3s linear infinite;
}
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l1 i, .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l1 i::after { animation-delay: 0.00s; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l2 i, .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l2 i::after { animation-delay: 0.42s; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l3 i, .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l3 i::after { animation-delay: 0.84s; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l4 i, .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l4 i::after { animation-delay: 1.26s; }
.fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l5 i, .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 .l5 i::after { animation-delay: 1.68s; }
@keyframes fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882-type {
  0% { width: 0; }
  13% { width: 100%; }
  100% { width: 100%; }
}
@keyframes fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882-caret {
  0% { opacity: 1; }
  13% { opacity: 1; }
  14% { opacity: 0; }
  100% { opacity: 0; }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882,
  .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882::before,
  .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882::after,
  .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 *,
  .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 *::before,
  .fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
typewriter-fill-skeleton-15883.html
<div class="fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882">
  <div class="hd">
    <i></i>
    <span></span>
  </div>
  <div class="ln l1">
    <i></i>
  </div>
  <div class="ln l2">
    <i></i>
  </div>
  <div class="ln l3">
    <i></i>
  </div>
  <div class="ln l4">
    <i></i>
  </div>
  <div class="ln l5">
    <i></i>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put typewriter-fill-skeleton-15883.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-v14-sk-typewriter-15882">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
npx hoverlab add typewriter-fill-skeleton-15883

What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

npx hoverlab add typewriter-fill-skeleton-15883

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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Guarded

Ships a prefers-reduced-motion block, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion.

What it animates
Reflows

Animates width. The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefer transform if you can.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
Under 3 flashes/s

Its brightest loop is about 0.3 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.

Layout shift (CLS)
May shift layout

Animates width on a box in flow, so content beside or after it can move. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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7 variations of Typewriter Fill Skeleton

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.