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Split Feature Rows

Image/text rows that alternate side, fade up 140ms apart when scrolled into view, and zoom their art panel on hover — the workhorse marketing layout.

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MIT licensev1.0.01.1 KB gzipzero dependenciesby Motif Studioadded 2026-09-09review due 2026-12-08
Live playground — drag, click, hoversandboxed previewsample copy
feature rows — scroll for the fadewaiting…
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Tokens before components

Colour, type and spacing decided on real screens first — the component palette is a consequence, not a starting point.

foundationspalette
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Motion with a budget

Every animation earns its place: under 200ms for feedback, over 500ms only for story beats, and reduced-motion kills the whole theatre.

motionprinciples

each row fades up 140ms after the last — and the art panel zooms gently on hover.

Ambience
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deps: zeroJSX + TailwindMIT · original
split-feature-rows.tsx
// React — one observer for all rows
const [seen, setSeen] = useState(false);
useEffect(() => { /* IO on the list container, threshold .3 */ }, []);
{rows.map((r, i) => (
  <article key={r.k} className={i % 2 ? "row flip" : "row"}
    style={{ animation: seen ? `mf-rise .5s ease-out ${i * 140}ms both` : "none",
             opacity: seen ? 1 : 0 }}>
    <Art /> <Copy />
  </article>
))}
// art panel: group-hover zoom via transform, never layout

Snippet provenance

lines 1–11 · v1.0.0
v1.0.0Motif Studio2026-09-09the only version the catalog records for this asset

No changelog entry mentions “Split Feature Rows”, so the catalog records a single version for it.

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Design notes from the studio

Why it works — Alternating image/text rows are the workhorse of feature pages because the eye always knows where to look next.

The idea — Stagger the rows' reveal (140ms apart) instead of releasing them together — sequence is what makes the pattern feel deliberate.

When to skip it — Alternating sides is meaningless below ~700px; on mobile stack consistently and let the image lead, then the copy.

Dependency-aware copy: zero packages to install — paste and run. All markup is original Motif UI content (MIT).

Course rail — understand it before you ship it

Theme Studio preview

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.

Midnight / violet
feature rows — scroll for the fadewaiting…
01
Tokens before components

Colour, type and spacing decided on real screens first — the component palette is a consequence, not a starting point.

foundationspalette
02
Motion with a budget

Every animation earns its place: under 200ms for feedback, over 500ms only for story beats, and reduced-motion kills the whole theatre.

motionprinciples

each row fades up 140ms after the last — and the art panel zooms gently on hover.

--accent 262 · dark surfaces

Bone / amber
feature rows — scroll for the fadewaiting…
01
Tokens before components

Colour, type and spacing decided on real screens first — the component palette is a consequence, not a starting point.

foundationspalette
02
Motion with a budget

Every animation earns its place: under 200ms for feedback, over 500ms only for story beats, and reduced-motion kills the whole theatre.

motionprinciples

each row fades up 140ms after the last — and the art panel zooms gently on hover.

--accent 40 · paper surfaces

90-second read

Usage recipe — where this fits

Assemble it between your own header and footer — sections are the middle of the page, where information architecture lives.

Swap the demo copy for real content first, then reduce: cut decorative blocks until the section survives on its information alone.

belongs in sectionsscroll behaviourhover behaviour

Cost honesty

Performance note

1.1 KB gzipone-time layouttext and cards paint once; the cost is in image weight and font loading, not the structure.

Cheaper alternative — the minimal variant drops the decorative layers and keeps the content hierarchy.

What it needs

Browser support strip

CSS Gridflexboxcustom propertiescontainer queries (optional)all evergreen browsers

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

This asset is not motion-first, so reduced-motion mainly affects its decorative extras (reveals, hovers). The content layer never depends on motion to be readable.

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Auto-suggested

Composition map — what pairs well

One original micro-case

Inspiration context

The pricing page that stopped lying

A pricing section with three tiers and no indication of which one people actually chose produced analysis paralysis. Adding one honest 'most chosen' chip — not a fake 'popular' badge, but a real count — lifted conversions by 8% and cut support questions about tier differences.

Written in-house — no screenshots, no borrowed imagery. The pattern, not the pixels.

Every version, why

Changelog — this asset

v1.0.02026-09-09

Current release — this page documents the asset as shipped.

v1.0.02026-08-18

Token pass: colours and radii moved to the design-token sheet; a11y score raised to the current bar.

v0.1.02026-07-02

Initial release to the library — original markup, MIT licensed.

30-day sparkline

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Community remixes

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Print-inspired web — a magazine spread that scrolls

Editorial spread · Folio rules · Ink logic

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Bundled dependencies — disclosed

split-feature-rows.tsx0.4 KB raw · ~1 KB gzip
(no runtime dependencies)the CSS ships with the snippet

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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

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Written version first

Tutorial transcript

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Annotated snippet

Code line walk

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Trade-off, visible

Size vs. quality slider

~2 KB~6 KB~12 KB

Standard · CSS + hover states

~6 KB

adds 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 375-character stylesheet is the easy half.

Find it the way you say it

Tag synonyms

Search on this site resolves synonyms globally — "dropdown", "select" and "picker" land on the same asset, so you never need to know the catalog's internal vocabulary.

When to pick which

Sibling comparison

Data table — data table
CompareSplit Feature RowsAurora Hero SectionBento Studio Grid
KindSectionsSectionsSections
Bundle1.1 KB gzip6.2 KB gzip5.5 KB gzip
a11y96/10097/10096/100
Dependenciesnonenonenone
Copies / mo4504,8603,960
Interactionsscroll, hoverscroll, hoverhover

The honest verdict — Split Feature Rows is the lighter default here; reach for Aurora Hero Section when its extra weight buys an interaction this one lacks.

Read next — two guides and a prompt

picked by tag overlap, not by hand

How these three were chosen: essays scored on shared tags (0 and 0 matches), then prompt scored on block/vibe overlap (0 matches). The rule lives in src/lib/spine.ts, so the same asset always links to the same three pages and a second reader can reproduce the choice.

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