Tailwind loaders

Spinners, bars, dots and skeletons — no JavaScript in any of them.

A loader is the one component where the honest version beats the clever one: if you know the progress, show a bar; if you do not, show something that does not pretend to. These are pure CSS keyframes, so they start the moment the markup parses rather than after a bundle loads — which is the whole point of a loading state.

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The timeless rotating-border spinner, refined with a subtle base ring for depth.

Three colored dots that bounce in a staggered rhythm, perfect for inline status indicators.

Two concentric rings expand and fade in alternation, creating a sonar-like pulse.

Square Wave

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A single square that rotates and morphs its border-radius in a hypnotic wave pattern.

Two stacked placeholder bars with a soft sweeping highlight that signals content is on its way.

A slim pill track with a colored segment that slides endlessly from left to right — perfect for progress feedback.

Orbit Loader

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Three colored dots circle a central point at staggered phases, like electrons tracing an orbit.

Two counter-rotating waves slosh inside a circular vessel, creating a hypnotic liquid-fill illusion.

A purple hexagon (via clip-path) that flips on its Y axis while bouncing — geometric and modern.

A conic gradient masked into a thin ring that rotates — a more colorful alternative to the classic spinner.

Classic norm rotating ring spinner in blue.

Three bouncing dots in ocean colors with staggered timing.

A blue disc that pulses in size and emits an expanding ring.

Five-bar audio equalizer in ocean colors with staggered heights.

Norm shimmering text placeholder blocks on a slate surface.

Norm shimmering card placeholder blocks on a slate surface.

Blue-tinted skeleton bars that pulse opacity in sequence.

Skeleton bars with an ocean gradient wave sweeping across.

Loading avatar with a rotating ocean conic gradient + text lines.

Two concentric rings spinning in opposite directions in ocean colors.

Thin ocean arc spinner — one element, drawn by a conic gradient and cut to a ring with a radial mask.

Five blue bars pumping out of phase — the compact "still working" indicator for inline use.

Three ocean dots swelling in sequence — the quietest loader that still reads as motion.

Full card placeholder — avatar, heading and three text lines — sweeping blue in one shared animation.

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Questions about tailwind loaders

How do I use these with Tailwind rather than plain CSS?
Each one ships as a class plus its keyframes. Paste the keyframes into your stylesheet (or a `@theme` block) and the markup is ordinary utility classes — nothing here needs a plugin or a config change.
Which loader should I actually reach for?
Under about a second, none: a spinner that flashes for 300ms reads as a glitch. Past that, a bar if you can measure the work and a skeleton if the shape of the result is predictable, because a skeleton tells the reader what is coming.
Are these tailwind loaders free to use?
All 73 are free to copy and use in your own projects, including commercial ones. A Pro licence exists for redistribution — shipping them inside a product other people buy — and the full terms are on the licence page.
How do I add one to my project?
Copy the CSS and the markup from the artifact's page — there is nothing to install, no runtime and no build step. The CLI (`npx hoverlab add`) is there for the component tiers above these, where a file gets written rather than pasted.