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Container with a light trail running around its border v1.0.0

Use this resource to highlight a button or a card with an animated light border

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  • 500 downloads
  • 152 likes
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Install with the CLI

In a terminal, from the folder you want:

npx --yes palatekit@latest install animated-border-trail

First time: connect the CLI with

npx --yes palatekit@latest login

The agent adds a React (Tailwind) component with an accompanying stylesheet to your page, animating a light trail around a container. You place your button or card inside and set the colours. You get a living-border effect.

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Updated November 2, 2026

Details

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Uses
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • clsx
  • tailwind-merge
Licence
MIT

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What you get

  • README.md: usage guide
  • animated-border-trail.stories.tsx: the author's original file
  • animated-border-trail.tsx: the author's original file
  • animated-border-trail.mdx: the author's original file

Good fit for

  • Make a page's main button stand out
  • Highlight an offer card
  • Frame a search field

Not for

  • A site without React or Tailwind CSS, without adapting it
  • A motion-sensitive audience, without adding prefers-reduced-motion

Tags

  • border
  • light
  • button
  • card
  • animation

About

You say

"Wrap my Try button in a border with a blue light trail."

Button or card whose border is looped by a travelling trail of light.

Component published by harimanok_ under the MIT license, resource page and guide written by PalateKit.

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Prerequisites

You bring
Your React project with Tailwind CSS and Your colors and texts
Dependencies
React, Tailwind CSS, clsx, and tailwind-merge

How to use it

  1. Copy animated-border-trail.tsx into your React project's components folder.
  2. Install the required packages: clsx, tailwind-merge.
  3. Ask the agent to place the component on the page and match it to your brand.

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Files

  • animata/container/animated-border-trail.stories.tsx1.4 KB
  • animata/container/animated-border-trail.tsx1.3 KB
  • content/docs/container/animated-border-trail.mdx2.1 KB
  • LICENSE1.1 KB
  • NOTICE-PALATEKIT.md0.4 KB
  • README.md0.8 KB

Origin and licence

Modified by PalateKit

Author
harimanok_
Source
github.com/codse/animata/tree/25c27e5a874c60a56dcc1609df3b2c4f5f8456f8/animata/container/animated-border-trail.tsx
Licence
MIT

Notice

Version modifiée de « animated-border-trail » (harimanok_, MIT) : traduction française et fiche par PalateKit.

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Frequently asked questions

Which packages do I install?

React, Tailwind CSS and clsx, tailwind-merge.

Does it work without Next.js?

Yes, in any React project with Tailwind CSS; just drop the "use client" directive if your tooling does not support it.