Realistic <Spoiler /> component for React

Inspired by Telegram spoilers, spoiled renders an animated particle cloud covering text, inline or block elements, keeping them hidden until revealed.

• Uses CSS Painting API (Houdini) to achive realistic rendering for inline elements. Comes with a static image fallback;
• Supports light/dark/system mode;
• Animated content transitions (fade/iris), or custom;
• Respects prefers-reduced-motion;
• Control the performance: FPS, density, color, and more;

CSS Painting API is still unsupported in Firefox and Safari. We provide a static fallback image for these browsers, that you can customise via the fallback prop. Also, there is a polyfill available.

How to use?

Install the package, requires React 18:

npm i spoiled

Or use your package manager of choice:

pnpm add spoiled

yarn add spoiled

Wrap your text in a spoiler, so the plot twists stay hidden:

import { Spoiler } from "spoiled";

// Reveals on hover
<Spoiler>
  Hogwarts is a high-tech <b>startup incubator</b>
</Spoiler>;

By default, the spoiler:

• reveals on hover (uncontrolled)
• uses system color scheme
• wraps the content in a span element
• injects a small CSS for content transitions (please read below on how to opt out)

All standard props are proxied to the underlying span element. You can also use tagName prop to change the tag:

<Spoiler className="custom" aria-label="total secret">
  Neo opens a digital wellness retreat
</Spoiler>;

// You can hide blocks as well!
<Spoiler tagName="div">
  <img />
</Spoiler>;

Hiding and revealing the spoiler

<Spoiler /> is uncontrolled and hidden by default. Use revealOn prop to either reveal the content on click or hover:

<Spoiler revealOn="click">Click me</Spoiler>;
<Spoiler revealOn="hover">Hover me</Spoiler>;

// Click to hide the spoiler
<Spoiler defaultHidden={false} revealOn="click">
  Frodo starts a ring-themed jewelry line
</Spoiler>;

We do, however, recommend passing hidden prop to control the spoiler state from your app:

const [hidden, setHidden] = useState(true);

<Spoiler hidden={hidden} onClick={() => setHidden((s) => !s)} />;

Theming

Spoiler adapts to the current color scheme, but you can also override the theme and the accent color of the noise:

/**
 * Theming
 */

<Spoiler /> // default theme is `system`
<Spoiler theme="dark" />
<Spoiler theme="light" />

/**
 * Custom primary color of the noise
 */

<Spoiler accentColor="red" />

// use an array of light and dark colors for
// dynamic accent color
<Spoiler accentColor={["black", "white"]} />

Performance

Spoiled uses IntersectionObserver to stop the animation when the element leaves the viewport. You can also use fps and density props to control the performance:

// default FPS is 24, but it should look good at 16-20 as well
<Spoiler fps={16} />

// Default: 0.12
// Controls the number of particles rendered
// The higher, the more dense the noise
<Spoiler density={0.2}>Fat secret</Spoiler>

Shape of words

When applied to inline elements, <Spoiler /> will try to mimic the shape of the words in a paragraph (faking spaces between words).

Since it can be inaccurate, use mimicWords setting to disable it:

<Spoiler mimicWords={false}>This will be rendered as a solid line of text</Spoiler>

Styling

Spoiled will on-demand inject a small <style> tag into the document with a CSS needed to animate hide and reveal transitions. You can use an unstyled version instead and load these styles differently.

import { Spoiler } from "spoiled/no-css";

// If you're using Vite or similar bundler, these styles will be written to the final CSS bundle
import "spoiled/style.css";

Disclaimer

As of 2024, CSS Houdini API is supported by the 70% of the browsers (we do have a fallback though!). Animation may not be fluid and performant when used on hude blocks of text.

Also, we don't guarantee that the secrets will stay hidden. Use at your own risk.