Motion Highlight
Dynamic background highlight that follows active items with smooth spring animations for React applications.
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Create fluid, animated highlighting that follows user interaction across menu items, tabs, or any list. The highlight smoothly transitions between items using Motion's layout animations, creating a polished selection indicator. Supports two modes: 'children' for per-item highlight backgrounds, and 'parent' for a single sliding indicator. Works with hover or click interactions, controlled or uncontrolled state, and custom transition physics. Built with Motion for React using AnimatePresence for seamless enter/exit animations. Perfect for navigation menus, filter chips, tabs, or any UI needing elegant selection feedback.
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use shadcnio to install the motion-highlight text effect into my projectRelated Components
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