Headless UI

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Headless UI gives you fully accessible, interaction-complete components with zero styling. It's the skeleton without the skin. You get dropdowns, modals, and tabs that handle all the keyboard and ARIA stuff, and you make them pretty however you want.

Real Talk

Headless UI is an unstyled component library by Tailwind Labs providing fully accessible UI components for React and Vue. It handles complex interaction patterns like focus management, keyboard navigation, and ARIA attributes while leaving all visual presentation to the consumer.

When You'll Hear This

"Headless UI + Tailwind is the power combo" / "We use Headless UI for the accessibility, then style everything ourselves"

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