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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
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="cap">Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.</p> <div class="hss-strip"> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Documents</span><span class="v">1,482</span><span class="s">this period</span></div> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Median time</span><span class="v">3.2s</span><span class="s">last 24h</span></div> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Clean runs</span><span class="v">98.4%</span><span class="s">no retries</span></div> <div class="hss-tile"><span class="l">Quality score</span><span class="v dim" aria-label="no value yet">—</span><span class="s">not rated yet</span></div> </div> <p class="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" data-hss-filter role="group" aria-label="Filter downloads by status"> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="All" aria-pressed="true"><span class="l">All</span><span class="v">6</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Queued" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Queued</span><span class="v">2</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Downloading" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Downloading</span><span class="v">1</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Done" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Done</span><span class="v">2</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button> <button class="hss-tile" type="button" data-status="Failed" aria-pressed="false"><span class="l">Failed</span><span class="v">1</span><span class="s">downloads</span></button> </div> <ul class="dl-list" data-dl> <li data-status="Done"><span>Bicycle drivetrain teardown</span><span class="st">Done</span></li> <li data-status="Downloading"><span>Kiln firing, part three</span><span class="st">Downloading</span></li> <li data-status="Queued"><span>Field recording — marsh at dawn</span><span class="st">Queued</span></li> <li data-status="Done"><span>Lathe restoration, episode 12</span><span class="st">Done</span></li> <li data-status="Failed"><span>Sourdough hydration tests</span><span class="st">Failed</span></li> <li data-status="Queued"><span>Bookbinding: the long stitch</span><span class="st">Queued</span></li> </ul> <p class="dl-status" data-dl-status role="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; /* the hairline */
background: var(--border); /* shows through the gap */
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, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
@container (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
@container (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip.five { grid-template-columns: repeat(5, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: 14px 16px; min-width: 0; text-align: left; }
.hss-tile .l { font: 500 0.8125rem/1.3 ui-monospace, monospace; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--dim); }
.hss-tile .v { font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 800; color: var(--ink); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
.hss-tile .v.dim { color: var(--dim); }
.hss-tile .s { font-size: 0.875rem; color: var(--dim); overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
button.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] {
background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface));
}const strip = document.querySelector("[data-hss-filter]");
const tiles = strip.querySelectorAll("button");
const rows = document.querySelectorAll("[data-dl] li");
const status = document.querySelector("[data-dl-status]");
tiles.forEach((tile) => {
tile.addEventListener("click", () => {
const wasOn = tile.getAttribute("aria-pressed") === "true";
const value = wasOn || tile.dataset.status === "All" ? "All" : tile.dataset.status;
tiles.forEach((other) => other.setAttribute("aria-pressed", String(other.dataset.status === value)));
let shown = 0;
rows.forEach((row) => {
const match = value === "All" || row.dataset.status === value;
row.hidden = !match;
if (match) shown += 1;
});
status.textContent = value === "All"
? "Showing all 6 downloads."
: `Filtered to ${value}: ${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.