# Skeleton

> A placeholder bar or circle while content loads. One token contract, every theme. Catalog id skeleton.

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Last Updated: 2026-11-13

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[Components](https://texuli.com/component-pages/) Skeleton

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`skeleton`

A placeholder bar or circle while content loads.

**One token contract, every theme.** Display components take color, radius, density and state styling from the --tx-* token contract — the same variables the theme strip below overrides — so a theme swap re-colors them without per-component fixes.

## Live examples

### Text line

### Text line

Loading demo…

### Avatar placeholder

### Avatar placeholder

## In your theme

This page renders in the site theme, `enterprise-neutral`. Every one of the **210** library themes re-colors every component through the `--tx-*` contract. The three below carry real token values from the library, rendered at build — no island, no extra requests.

- Violetlight mode · AA contrast`background`
- `surface`
- `primary`
- `accent`
- `border`

[Open Theme Studio](https://texuli.com/theme-studio/)
- Monochromelight mode · AA contrast`background`
- `surface`
- `primary`
- `accent`
- `border`

[Open Theme Studio](https://texuli.com/theme-studio/)
- Accessible Dark Contrastdark mode · AAA contrast`background`
- `surface`
- `primary`
- `accent`
- `border`

[Open Theme Studio](https://texuli.com/theme-studio/)

## Props

Public props for Skeleton

| Name | Kind | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `size` | `enum` (sm, md, lg) | no | `"md"` | — |
| `circle` | `boolean` | no | `false` | — |
| `class` | `string` | no | — | — |

## Keyboard

Keyboard behavior for Skeleton

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `a` | Decorative (aria-hidden); pair it with a live status elsewhere if the wait matters. |

## Accessibility

- Decorative (aria-hidden); pair it with a live status elsewhere if the wait matters.

## Evidence for skeleton

Latest committed gates for `skeleton` (as of 2026-10-23). Static snapshot — not live CI.

### Behavior

n/a no behavior scenario

No dedicated behavior scenario for this catalog id (a styled or display surface, covered by its unit and axe tests).

### Size (gzip)

`texuli/skeleton · budget 12.0 KiB`

Budget from texuli.budgets.json; re-measure with `pnpm size --filter <entry>`.

### Axe

documented

- `tests/e2e/site-component-pages.spec.ts`
- `docs/quality (a11y-*)`

Site component pages axe gate; package-level a11y docs under docs/quality when present.

### Browsers

- `chromium`
- `webkit`
- `mobile`

Playwright projects: Desktop Chrome, Desktop Safari, Pixel 7. Firefox is a known gap on this host.

## When to use

### Use when

- Reserve space for text or an avatar that has not arrived yet

### Don’t use when

Prefer another component

- A determinate load (use progress)
- A live status (use spinner)

## Related

- [`spinner`](https://texuli.com/component-pages/spinner/)
- [`progress`](https://texuli.com/component-pages/progress/)

## For agents

The live preview, prop editor and copyable code run in the browser. The component manifest holds the same props, events, examples and guidance as data. The live parts run in the browser and are not in this Markdown; the operations below do the same work through the read-only MCP server at https://texuli.com/mcp (no sign-in; see https://texuli.com/auth.md).

MCP operations ([reference](https://github.com/DailybotHQ/texuli/blob/main/packages/tools/docs/ops.md#operations)):

- `component.get`: Read a component manifest with `{"id":"skeleton"}`.
- `example.search`: Find component examples.
- `catalog.search`: Search the component catalog.

Docs:

- [skeleton component doc (Markdown)](https://texuli.com/llms/components/skeleton.md)
- [Component docs for agents (llms.txt)](https://texuli.com/llms/llms.txt)
- [Catalog manifest snapshot (JSON)](https://texuli.com/catalog/catalog.json)
- [texuli README](https://github.com/DailybotHQ/texuli/blob/main/packages/texuli/README.md)
- [@texuli/catalog README](https://github.com/DailybotHQ/texuli/blob/main/packages/catalog/README.md)