Dialog: HextaUI and shadcn/ui

The HextaUI Dialog 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

Measure	HextaUI	shadcn/ui
Exported parts	11	10
Props the wrapper handles	4	2
Lines of source	214	162
npm dependencies	`@base-ui/react@^1.8.0class-variance-authoritycn`	`cn`
Built from	`buttonsheettheme`	`button`

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.

Parts

Only in HextaUIDialogBody

In bothDialogDialogTriggerDialogPortalDialogOverlayDialogCloseDialogContentDialogHeaderDialogFooterDialogTitleDialogDescription

Variants

Prop	In both	Only HextaUI	Only shadcn/ui
`size`DialogContent	–	`defaultsmlg`	–

The HextaUI version

import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import {
  Dialog,
  DialogBody,
  DialogClose,
  DialogContent,
  DialogDescription,
  DialogFooter,
  DialogHeader,
  DialogTitle,
  DialogTrigger,
} from "@/components/ui/dialog"
import { Field, FieldGroup, FieldLabel } from "@/components/ui/field"
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input"

export function DialogDemo() {
  return (
    <Dialog>
      <DialogTrigger render={<Button variant="outline" />}>
        Edit profile
      </DialogTrigger>
      <DialogContent>
        <DialogHeader>
          <DialogTitle>Edit profile</DialogTitle>
          <DialogDescription>
            Make changes to your profile here. Click save when you’re done.
          </DialogDescription>
        </DialogHeader>
        <DialogBody>
          <FieldGroup>
            <Field>
              <FieldLabel>Name</FieldLabel>
              <Input defaultValue="Olivia Martin" autoComplete="name" />
            </Field>
            <Field>
              <FieldLabel>Username</FieldLabel>
              <Input defaultValue="@olivia" autoComplete="username" />
            </Field>
          </FieldGroup>
        </DialogBody>
        <DialogFooter>
          <DialogClose render={<Button variant="outline" />}>
            Cancel
          </DialogClose>
          <DialogClose render={<Button />}>Save changes</DialogClose>
        </DialogFooter>
      </DialogContent>
    </Dialog>
  )
}

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

10 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/dialog.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.