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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
- stats
- css-grid
- css-only
- hairline
- no-assets
200 mSpecimen under glassPreview, source, and the prompt that rebuilds it.
Reporting only — the figures are the whole job.
Documents1,482this period
Median time3.2slast 24h
Clean runs98.4%no retries
Quality score—not rated yet
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
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<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 is-missing">—</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;
}
@media (min-width: 21rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
@media (min-width: 42rem) { .hss-strip { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, minmax(0, 1fr)); } }
.hss-tile { background: var(--surface); padding: 14px 16px; min-width: 0; }
.hss-label { font: 500 0.8125rem/1.3 ui-monospace, monospace; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--dim); overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
.hss-figure { font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
.hss-figure[data-missing] { color: var(--dim); }
.hss-tile[aria-pressed="true"] { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 14%, var(--surface)); }
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.
Pin the column counts (1, then 2 from 21rem, then 4 from 42rem) instead of using auto-fit, so the row never strands a single tile on its own line.
Two rules of honesty: render a missing value as a dimmed em dash rather than a zero, and keep units with the number.
In the filter form, each tile is a button with aria-pressed, not a tab. Compute the counts from the unfiltered set so they don't change as you filter.
1,000 mNeighbouring specimensThe patterns on either side in curated order.
Annotated transcript
Conversation bubbles with a speaker-colored spine and a fixed metadata gutter.
39 more patterns, each with a prompt you can hand to an agent.
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