Layout Updated
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
Tags
- stats
- css-grid
- css-only
- hairline
- no-assets
Seed packet Nº 15 · Layout
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 teardown Done
- Kiln firing, part three Downloading
- Field recording — marsh at dawn Queued
- Lathe restoration, episode 12 Done
- Sourdough hydration tests Failed
- Bookbinding: the long stitch Queued
Showing all 6 downloads.
<p class="hss-caption">Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.</p> <div class="hss-strip four"> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="lab">Documents</span><span class="fig">1,482</span><span class="sub">this period</span></div> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="lab">Median time</span><span class="fig">3.2s</span><span class="sub">last 24h</span></div> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="lab">Clean runs</span><span class="fig">98.4%</span><span class="sub">no retries</span></div> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="lab">Quality score</span><span class="fig none">—</span><span class="sub">not rated yet</span></div> </div> <p class="hss-caption">Same strip, working as the filter. Press a tile to narrow the list; press it again to clear.</p> <div class="hss-strip five hss-filter"> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="All" aria-pressed="true"><span class="lab">All</span><span class="fig">6</span><span class="sub">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Queued" aria-pressed="false"><span class="lab">Queued</span><span class="fig">2</span><span class="sub">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Downloading" aria-pressed="false"><span class="lab">Downloading</span><span class="fig">1</span><span class="sub">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Done" aria-pressed="false"><span class="lab">Done</span><span class="fig">2</span><span class="sub">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-state="Failed" aria-pressed="false"><span class="lab">Failed</span><span class="fig">1</span><span class="sub">downloads</span></button> </div> <ul class="hss-list"> <li data-state="Done">Bicycle drivetrain teardown <span class="st">Done</span></li> <li data-state="Downloading">Kiln firing, part three <span class="st">Downloading</span></li> <li data-state="Queued">Field recording — marsh at dawn <span class="st">Queued</span></li> <li data-state="Done">Lathe restoration, episode 12 <span class="st">Done</span></li> <li data-state="Failed">Sourdough hydration tests <span class="st">Failed</span></li> <li data-state="Queued">Bookbinding: the long stitch <span class="st">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: minmax(0, 1fr);
}
@container (min-width: 21rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
@container (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: 0.9rem 1rem; min-width: 0; }
.hss-label {
font-family: ui-monospace, monospace;
font-size: 0.8125rem;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: 0.08em;
color: var(--dim);
overflow-wrap: anywhere;
}
.hss-figure { font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; color: var(--ink); }
.hss-figure[data-missing] { color: var(--dim); font-weight: 400; }
button.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] {
background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface));
}const tiles = document.querySelectorAll('.hss-filter .hss-tile');
const rows = document.querySelectorAll('.hss-list li');
const status = document.querySelector('.hss-status');
tiles.forEach((tile) => {
tile.addEventListener('click', () => {
const wasPressed = tile.getAttribute('aria-pressed') === 'true';
const state = wasPressed ? 'All' : tile.dataset.state;
tiles.forEach((other) => other.setAttribute('aria-pressed', String(other.dataset.state === state)));
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 ${rows.length} downloads.`
: `Filtered to ${state}: ${shown} of ${rows.length}. 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 rest of the spec covers pinning column counts (1, then 2, then 4, never an auto-fit that strands one tile on its own row), tile anatomy (mono uppercase label, bold tabular figure, a quiet sub-line), two rules of honesty (render a missing value as a dimmed em dash, and keep units with the number), the filter form, computing counts from the unfiltered set, and using aria-pressed rather than tab roles.
Excerpt. The full prompt lives with the pattern source.