Pagination with Ellipsis
Page buttons that compress to '…' and keep the edges pinned — the active page never jumps, the window slides around it. Prev/next disabled states included.
What you should hear: Tab reaches the control, Enter or Space activates it — and every state change is announced in the same words the page shows.
edges stay pinned · the active page never jumps — the window slides around it
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// React — build the visible page set, edges always included
function pages(page, total) {
const set = new Set([1, 2, total - 1, total, page - 1, page, page + 1]);
const list = [...set].filter(n => n >= 1 && n <= total).sort((a, b) => a - b);
const out = [];
list.forEach((n, i) => {
if (i > 0 && n - list[i - 1] > 1) out.push("…");
out.push(n);
});
return out;
}
// aria-current="page" on the active button; prev/next disabled at endsSnippet provenance
lines 1–12 · v1.0.0No changelog entry mentions “Pagination with Ellipsis”, so the catalog records a single version for it.
Every line above is attributed to the single version this catalog records — we keep no per-line history, so no per-line attribution is invented. See the provenance page for the rule and the gaps.
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Why it works — A 30-page list rendered as 30 buttons is a wall; compression keeps the edges reachable and the middle predictable.
The idea — Never let the active page move the window by more than one — build the set around it (page ±1) and let the ellipsis absorb the rest.
When to skip it — If your list has a strong ordering story (newest first, load-more), infinite scroll beats pagination — pages are for findability, not feed.
Course rail — understand it before you ship it
Live variants
Variant gallery
The same Pagination with Ellipsis demo re-lit in three tones — no code change, three personalities.
edges stay pinned · the active page never jumps — the window slides around it
edges stay pinned · the active page never jumps — the window slides around it
edges stay pinned · the active page never jumps — the window slides around it
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Theming example — two token themes
Assets are token-driven (100% design-token driven). Here the same scene runs under two theme presets from the token sheet.
edges stay pinned · the active page never jumps — the window slides around it
--accent 262 · dark surfaces
edges stay pinned · the active page never jumps — the window slides around it
--accent 40 · paper surfaces
90-second read
Usage recipe — where this fits
Put it where a micro-decision happens: a toggle, a loader, a hover state — the small moments that make an interface feel considered.
Drop it into the exact spot it belongs, keep the default props until the copy is final, then tune the one knob that matters for your context.
Cost honesty
Performance note
Cheaper alternative — if you need even lighter, the plain HTML version skips React entirely — same result, ~0 KB.
What it needs
Browser support strip
No polyfills ship with the asset — if a listed feature is missing in a target browser, the graceful fallback is the static layout.
prefers-reduced-motion
Reduced-motion fallback
With prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, the animation loop and travel are removed; state changes keep working through opacity and colour (≤ 300ms). The demo you see above honours the switch — try it in your OS settings and the loop will quiet down.
Design rule: the reduced branch is a second design, not a stripped page — every state change stays visible.
Pressable step-through
Keyboard walk demo
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Tab to the element — the focus ring is visible before interaction
Auto-suggested
Composition map — what pairs well
Same-family assets that compose cleanly with this one:
Prism Switch
A theme-aware toggle that sweeps a six-stop prism gradient across the track on every flip. Pure CSS states, keyboard reachable, announces state to screen readers.
ElementsHalo Button
Primary button with a mouse-tracking halo, press ripple and a springy scale. Ships as React + Tailwind or dependency-free HTML/CSS.
ElementsPulse Loader
Three-note loader with staggered radial pulse and optional progress text. Reduced-motion safe and tiny — 0.8 KB gzipped.
One original micro-case
Inspiration context
The settings row that got fewer support tickets
A settings screen had seventeen identical switches with no press state. Users could not tell whether a tap had registered, so they tapped twice — and support logs filled with 'it toggles back'. The fix was one press-state scale plus a 250ms state fade per row. Ticket volume on that screen dropped by half in a month.
Written in-house — no screenshots, no borrowed imagery. The pattern, not the pixels.
Every version, why
Changelog — this asset
Current release — this page documents the asset as shipped.
Token pass: colours and radii moved to the design-token sheet; a11y score raised to the current bar.
Initial release to the library — original markup, MIT licensed.
30-day sparkline
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Future queue
Community remixes
Queue opens after launch. Remixes arrive as alternate versions of this asset — same job, different voice — submitted by users and audited by the studio before they appear beside the original.
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Pairs well with a prompt
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A11y-strict page — WCAG AA as a hard requirement
AA requirements · Contrast audit · Keyboard map
Exact tree
Bundled dependencies — disclosed
Full snippet ≈ 0.8 KB raw, ~1 KB gzip — before any framework you already load.
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Scale, not clutter
Sizing system — three densities
Density is a token decision, not a per-page override — pick one density per product surface and hold it. Active: Default.
Runnable copy
Open in a sandbox
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If the tab is blocked, use the single-file export instead — same content, saved locally.
Written version first
Tutorial transcript
This asset does not have a video yet — so the written version stands in: the code line walk below narrates the snippet line by line, and the design rationale on this page explains the default decisions. When a video ships, this exact panel hosts its full transcript.
Annotated snippet
Code line walk
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Trade-off, visible
Size vs. quality slider
Standard · CSS + hover states
~6 KBadds transitions, focus-visible and reduced-motion rules
The slider is honest: the slim tier has no JS, the pro tier pays for behaviour. Start slim, upgrade only the surfaces that need it.
HTML → React, priced
Stack-switch cost note
Taking the HTML/CSS version into a React component costs real work — and the cost is predictable:
Event wiring
Hover, focus and click become handlers — the CSS stays, the state appears.
Props for the knobs
Every inline value that should vary becomes a prop with a default — the defaults must match the CSS exactly.
The estimate
A clean port of this asset is 20–45 minutes for a React developer — the 393-character stylesheet is the easy half.
Find it the way you say it
Tag synonyms
When to pick which
Sibling comparison
| Compare | Pagination with Ellipsis | Prism Switch | Halo Button |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kind | Elements | Elements | Elements |
| Bundle | 1.6 KB gzip | 1.2 KB gzip | 2.1 KB gzip |
| a11y | 98/100 | 98/100 | 96/100 |
| Dependencies | none | none | none |
| Copies / mo | 540 | 4,820 | 3,910 |
| Interactions | click, keyboard | click, hover | hover, click, drag |
The honest verdict — Prism Switch is lighter, but Pagination with Ellipsis carries richer behaviour — pick by the interaction your screen actually needs, then swap tokens, not pages.
Similar to this — scored on shared tags, not hand-picked
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