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
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.
<p class="hss-cap">Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.</p>
<div class="hss-strip">
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Documents</span><span class="hss-fig">1,482</span><span class="hss-sub">this period</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Median time</span><span class="hss-fig">3.2s</span><span class="hss-sub">last 24h</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Clean runs</span><span class="hss-fig">98.4%</span><span class="hss-sub">no retries</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Quality score</span><span class="hss-fig hss-none">—</span><span class="hss-sub">not rated yet</span></div>
</div>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;
}
@container (min-width: 21rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); } }
@container (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: .875rem 1rem; }
.hss-label { font: 500 .8125rem/1.3 ui-monospace, monospace; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--dim); }
.hss-fig { font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
.hss-none { color: var(--dim); }
.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface)); }strip.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
const tile = event.target.closest('[data-status]');
if (!tile) return;
const wasOn = tile.getAttribute('aria-pressed') === 'true';
const value = wasOn ? 'All' : tile.dataset.status;
for (const other of strip.querySelectorAll('[data-status]')) {
other.setAttribute('aria-pressed', String(other.dataset.status === value && value !== 'All'));
}
for (const item of list.children) {
item.hidden = value !== 'All' && item.dataset.s !== value;
}
status.textContent = value === 'All'
? 'Showing all 6 downloads.'
: `Filtered to ${value}: ${list.querySelectorAll('li:not([hidden])').length} 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 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.
:root { --ground:#eef0f3; --surface:#ffffff; --border:#d2d8e0; --ink:#161b22; --dim:#56606e; --accent:#364f6a; --radius:10px; }
.hss-strip {
display: grid;
gap: 1px;
background: var(--border);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: var(--radius);
overflow: hidden;
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
@container (min-width: 21rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); } }
@container (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: .875rem 1rem; }
.hss-label { font: 500 .8125rem/1.3 ui-monospace, monospace; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--dim); }
.hss-fig { font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
.hss-none { color: var(--dim); }
.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface)); }
<p class="hss-cap">Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.</p>
<div class="hss-strip">
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Documents</span><span class="hss-fig">1,482</span><span class="hss-sub">this period</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Median time</span><span class="hss-fig">3.2s</span><span class="hss-sub">last 24h</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Clean runs</span><span class="hss-fig">98.4%</span><span class="hss-sub">no retries</span></div>
<div class="hss-tile"><span class="hss-label">Quality score</span><span class="hss-fig hss-none">—</span><span class="hss-sub">not rated yet</span></div>
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