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Avatar: HextaUI and shadcn/ui

The HextaUI Avatar keeps the shadcn/ui names and theme tokens and installs with the same CLI. This page lists what differs, read from the source of both. The shadcn/ui side is its base-vega registry as of 2026-10-16.

At a glance

MeasureHextaUIshadcn/ui
Exported parts66
Props the wrapper handles111
Lines of source432108
npm dependencies@base-ui/react@^1.8.0@tabler/icons-reactclass-variance-authoritycncn
Built fromtheme–

More source is not better on its own. Most of the extra lines in HextaUI handle states, motion and edge cases that you would otherwise write yourself.

Variants

PropIn bothOnly HextaUIOnly shadcn/ui
shapeAvatar–circlesquare–
statusAvatarBadge–noneonlineawaybusyoffline–
sizeAvatarGroup–xssmdefaultlgxl–

The HextaUI version

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import {
  Avatar,
  AvatarBadge,
  AvatarFallback,
  AvatarGroup,
  AvatarImage,
} from "@/components/ui/avatar"

export function AvatarDemo() {
  return (
    <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-8">
      <Avatar size="xl">
        <AvatarImage src="/preview/landscape.svg" alt="" />
        <AvatarFallback>AL</AvatarFallback>
        <AvatarBadge status="online" />
      </Avatar>
      <Avatar size="xl" shape="square">
        <AvatarFallback>GH</AvatarFallback>
      </Avatar>
      <AvatarGroup size="lg" max={4}>
        <Avatar>
          <AvatarImage src="/preview/landscape.svg" alt="" />
          <AvatarFallback>AL</AvatarFallback>
        </Avatar>
        <Avatar>
          <AvatarFallback>AT</AvatarFallback>
        </Avatar>
        <Avatar>
          <AvatarFallback>GH</AvatarFallback>
        </Avatar>
        <Avatar>
          <AvatarFallback>KJ</AvatarFallback>
        </Avatar>
        <Avatar>
          <AvatarFallback>LT</AvatarFallback>
        </Avatar>
      </AvatarGroup>
    </div>
  )
}

Every state, the keyboard map and the API reference are on the component page.

8 of its examples also have a page of their own.

Switch one component

Run the add command with --overwrite to replace the shadcn/ui file in @/components/ui, then review the diff in git before you keep it. Imports stay the same, and components you don’t replace keep working.

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add https://hextaui.com/r/avatar.json --overwrite
  • Every prop in the table above is an addition, so call sites written for shadcn/ui don’t pass it yet.
  • Check any part or variant listed only for shadcn/ui before you switch, and map it to the closest HextaUI one.

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