Segmented State Compare

Reveal7: Segmented State Compare

Two states of the same thing, switched with a segmented control in the header. The photograph cross-fades while the statement, paragraph and ruled notes beside it swap to match.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/reveal7?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/reveal7?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/reveal7.tsx plus the badge7 eyebrow it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports reveal7Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working comparison in one line.

import { Reveal7, reveal7Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/reveal7";

export default function Page() {
  return <Reveal7 {...reveal7Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Reveal7 } from "@/components/beste/block/reveal7";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Reveal7
      badge={{ label: "Switch it" }}
      heading="The old bag and the one that replaced it."
      states={[
        {
          label: "2019 packaging",
          title: "Illustrated, crowded, unreadable at arm's length",
          description: "Six colours, a hand-drawn scene and four typefaces.",
          src: "/packaging/old.jpg",
          alt: "Unbranded paper packaging",
          notes: ["Six-colour print run", "Origin buried on the reverse"],
        },
        {
          label: "Current packaging",
          title: "One colour, one voice and the origin on the front",
          description: "Uncoated stock, a single ink and the name doing the work.",
          src: "/packaging/new.jpg",
          alt: "Minimal coffee packaging",
          notes: ["Single-colour print run", "Origin and roast date on the face"],
        },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Props

type CompareState = {
  label: string;
  title: string;
  description: string;
  src: string;
  alt: string;
  notes: string[];
};

Behavior notes

• The block opens on the last state when more than one is passed (useState(states.length > 1 ? 1 : 0)), so a visitor sees the current version first and switches back to the old one deliberately.
• Every image is rendered at once and cross-faded with transition-opacity duration-500, so switching never shows an empty frame while a file downloads.
• The segmented control is a real set of button elements with aria-pressed, sitting in a bg-muted track with the selected pill on bg-background, so the state is exposed as well as drawn.
• Notes are a plain ul with a border-t rule per row, which lets the two lists line up against each other when you flip between the states.
• The control lives in the header on the heading's baseline (items-end), so switching does not require scrolling past the picture.
• The frame changes ratio rather than height (aspect-[4/3] becoming md:aspect-[3/2]), so both states are cropped identically at every width and the comparison stays honest.
• Copy is capped at max-w-md in the side column, so the two states' text blocks occupy the same measure and differences in length read as content rather than layout.