Shadcn Input

Shadcn Input: Fast, Accessible Text Fields for Every Use Case

The Shadcn Input component provides a clean, flexible, and accessible way to capture user input in your web applications.

Built with React and Tailwind CSS, it offers full control over design, behavior, and validation. The React Input component from Shadcn is perfect for building forms, authentication screens, or search bars with consistent and reusable UI patterns.

What is Shadcn Input?

The Shadcn Input provides an basic styled <input> wrapper with consistent structure for labels, help text, and error messaging (often via Shadcn Form primitives).

It supports controlled/uncontrolled modes, forwards refs, and exposes states (focus, disabled, invalid) so you can implement visuals without fighting presets.

Why Use Shadcn Input?

• Accessible by Design: Proper labeling, descriptions, and error messaging patterns.
• Total Control: No opinionated styles—compose shapes, densities, and states with Tailwind.
• Keyboard & Screen Reader Friendly: Predictable focus, clear affordances, and ARIA wiring.
• Type-Safe: Great with TypeScript and validators (Zod/Yup) for reliable data entry.
• All the Variants You Need: From plain text to password, search, tags, OTP, and masked formats in your React Input UIs.

Features:

• 46 Variants Included: Basic, filled, outline, ghost, subtle, dense/compact, with icon (left/right), with prefix/suffix, clearable, password toggle, search, number with steppers, currency/units, masked/formatting, textarea-like growing input, tags/chips, OTP/pin, inline editable, disabled/read-only, invalid/success states, loading, with counter, with helper/tooltip, file trigger, date/time trigger, and more.
• Decorators & Addons: Prefix/suffix text (e.g., ₹, %), icons, action buttons.
• Validation States: Error/success visuals and aria-invalid, with inline FormMessage support.
• Size & Density Controls: Sm/md/lg heights, responsive padding, rounded variants.
• Password Utilities: Show/hide toggle, strength meter hook-in.
• Clear/Reset: One-click clear or reset to default.
• Composition-Safe: Works with IME input; no janky onChange loops.
• Ref & AutoFocus: Forwarded refs for focus management and selection APIs.

Production Tips

• Label > Placeholder: Always use a visible label; keep placeholders as hints, not labels.
• Error Messaging: Don't rely on color alone—include text/icons; link with aria-describedby.
• Input Modes & Autocomplete: Set type, inputMode, autoComplete (email, one-time-code, etc.) to reduce errors.
• Debounce Where Needed: For live search, debounce 150–300ms; for forms, validate onBlur or onSubmit.
• Mobile First: Ensure 44px min height, adequate touch targets, and proper keyboard (e.g., inputMode="numeric").
• Passwords: Provide show/hide, paste handling, and optional strength hints; avoid leaking value in DOM attributes.
• Masked Formats: Keep raw value in state; render formatted value for UX to avoid validation pain.
• Reduced Motion: Animate focus rings/placeholders with motion-safe: and instant fallbacks via motion-reduce:.

Integration With Other Components

The Shadcn Input integrates flawlessly with other Shadcn UI components for building complete form experiences.

Use Shadcn Form to wire labels, descriptions, and messages for consistent validation in React Input flows. Pair with Shadcn Button for clear/reset or search actions; add Shadcn Tooltip for inline help.

For complex selects, switch to Shadcn Combobox; for dates, trigger Shadcn Date Time Picker via a read-only input. Wrap inputs inside Shadcn Card sections and surface global errors with Shadcn Alert.

In data-heavy UIs, place filter inputs above a Shadcn Data Table and show active filters using Shadcn Badge.

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