Plate 15 · LayoutUpdated
Hairline stat strip
A row of stat tiles joined by hairlines that are grid gap, not borders — the container paints the border color and the tiles paint the surface, so separators never double up or break when the row wraps — in a reporting form and in a second form where each tile is the filter for the list beneath it.
Reach for it when building
- summary strip at the top of a detail page
- dashboard KPI row
- account usage overview
- report header figures
- profile stats band
Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.
Same strip, working as the filter. Press a tile to narrow the list; press it again to clear.
- Bicycle drivetrain teardownDone
- Kiln firing, part threeDownloading
- Field recording — marsh at dawnQueued
- Lathe restoration, episode 12Done
- Sourdough hydration testsFailed
- Bookbinding: the long stitchQueued
Showing all 6 downloads.
Fig. 15 — Two forms of one strip. The 1px of container showing through each gap is the hairline.
<p class="hss-cap">Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.</p>
<div class="hss-strip four" role="list">
<div class="hss-tile" role="listitem"><span class="l">Documents</span><span class="f">1,482</span><span class="s">this period</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile" role="listitem"><span class="l">Median time</span><span class="f">3.2s</span><span class="s">last 24h</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile" role="listitem"><span class="l">Clean runs</span><span class="f">98.4%</span><span class="s">no retries</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile" role="listitem"><span class="l">Quality score</span><span class="f none" aria-label="No value">—</span><span class="s">not rated yet</span></div>
</div>
<p class="hss-cap">Same strip, working as the filter. Press a tile to narrow the list; press it again to clear.</p>
<div class="hss-strip five">
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="All" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">All</span><span class="f">6</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Queued" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Queued</span><span class="f">2</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Downloading" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Downloading</span><span class="f">1</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Done" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Done</span><span class="f">2</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
<button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Failed" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Failed</span><span class="f">1</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button>
</div>
<ul class="hss-list">
<li data-state="Done"><span>Bicycle drivetrain teardown</span><span class="hss-st" data-s="Done">Done</span></li>
<li data-state="Downloading"><span>Kiln firing, part three</span><span class="hss-st" data-s="Downloading">Downloading</span></li>
<li data-state="Queued"><span>Field recording — marsh at dawn</span><span class="hss-st" data-s="Queued">Queued</span></li>
<li data-state="Done"><span>Lathe restoration, episode 12</span><span class="hss-st" data-s="Done">Done</span></li>
<li data-state="Failed"><span>Sourdough hydration tests</span><span class="hss-st" data-s="Failed">Failed</span></li>
<li data-state="Queued"><span>Bookbinding: the long stitch</span><span class="hss-st" data-s="Queued">Queued</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="hss-status" aria-live="polite">Showing all 6 downloads.</p>Colors come from shared theme tokens — --surface, --ink, --border, --accent and friends — so this CSS carries no palette of its own. Use Runnable file to copy the tokens along with it.
.hss-strip {
display: grid;
gap: 1px;
background: var(--border);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: var(--radius);
overflow: hidden;
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
@media (min-width: 21rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
@media (min-width: 42rem) {
.hss-strip.four { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0, 1fr)); }
.hss-strip.five { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, minmax(0, 1fr)); }
}
@media (min-width: 64rem) { .hss-strip.five { grid-template-columns: repeat(5, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: .9rem 1rem; min-width: 0; text-align: left; border: 0; }
.hss-tile .l { display: block; font-family: ui-monospace, monospace; text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: .06em; font-size: .8125rem; color: var(--dim); overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
.hss-tile .f { display: block; font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
.hss-tile .f.none { color: var(--dim); font-weight: 400; }
.hss-tile .s { display: block; color: var(--dim); overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
button.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] {
background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface));
}
const tiles = [...document.querySelectorAll('.hss-strip.five button')];
const rows = [...document.querySelectorAll('.hss-list li')];
const status = document.querySelector('.hss-status');
tiles.forEach((tile) => tile.addEventListener('click', () => {
const wasOn = tile.getAttribute('aria-pressed') === 'true';
const state = wasOn || tile.dataset.state === 'All' ? 'All' : tile.dataset.state;
tiles.forEach((other) => other.setAttribute('aria-pressed', String(state !== 'All' && other === tile)));
// counts on the tiles come from the unfiltered set, so they never change here
let shown = 0;
rows.forEach((row) => {
row.hidden = !(state === 'All' || row.dataset.state === state);
if (!row.hidden) shown += 1;
});
status.textContent = state === 'All'
? 'Showing all 6 downloads.'
: `Filtered to ${state}: ${shown} of 6. Press the lit tile again to clear.`;
}));Build a strip of statistic tiles that reads as one joined instrument panel rather than a row of floating cards.
The separators between tiles must not be borders. Make the container a CSS grid with gap: 1px and give the container itself the border color as its background; each tile then paints the surface color on top. The 1px of container showing through the gap is the hairline. This is the entire pattern: real borders double where two tiles meet and leave a stray edge when auto-fit wraps the row, and a gap physically cannot do either.
The full prompt continues with sections on pinning column counts, tile anatomy, two rules of honesty (render a missing value as a dimmed em dash; keep units with the number), the filter form, computing counts from the unfiltered set, and using aria-pressed rather than tab roles.
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