About Ark UI
Overview
Ark UI is an open-source headless UI library that ships more than 45 accessible, unstyled components for building reusable, scalable design systems. Developers bring their own CSS and compose components across React, Solid, Vue, and Svelte without fighting default styles.
Key Benefits
- Truly headless with no default styles to override
- A single component API works across React, Solid, Vue, and Svelte
- WAI-ARIA patterns, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support baked in
- State machine driven interactions that cover edge cases
- Style with Panda, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, or plain stylesheets
How It Works
Import a component from the framework package, such as @ark-ui/react/slider, and compose it from sub-parts like Slider.Root, Slider.Track, and Slider.Thumb. Wire up state with the framework's own reactivity model, then apply your own styles using the styling tool of your choice.
Use Cases
- Design system teams build reusable component libraries once and share them
- React, Solid, Vue, and Svelte developers use one consistent component API
- Enterprises ship accessible web apps with keyboard and screen reader support
- UI library authors base their own component sets on Ark UI, as Chakra UI and Park UI do
Why Choose This Product
Ark UI drives every component with state machines, which cuts down on errors and produces predictable behavior across complex interactions. Because it is fully headless, teams keep complete control over styling while relying on accessibility behavior that works out of the box.
Key Features
Headless Components
Ships more than 45 accessible components with no default styles to override.
Framework Agnostic
The same component API works across React, Solid, Vue, and Svelte.
Accessible by Default
WAI-ARIA patterns, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support are built into every component.
State Machine Powered
State machines drive interactions and cover edge cases for predictable behavior.
Bring Your Own CSS
Style components with Panda, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, or plain stylesheets.
Navigation Menu
A new Navigation Menu component extends the component set.