Carousels & Tickers
Category Hover Gallery
CategoryHoverGallery — a grid of category cards, each holding a strip of thumbnails that shifts left and zooms slightly on hover/focus.
$ velocityx add category-hover-galleryBuilt for astro.
Full docs for Category Hover Gallery →
Needs a licence key — buy lifetime access here, then
velocityx login once.
More than one thing
- Framework
- astro
- Source
- 142 lines
- CategoryHoverGallery.astro
- Runtime
- Static markup
- zero client JS
- Theme
- 6 tokens
- re-themes from your scale
- Responsive
- sm · md · lg
- 3 breakpoints
- Dark mode
- Built in
- dark: variants
- Accessibility
- 1 ARIA
- attributes and roles
Props
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eyebrow | string | No | 'More than one thing' | |
| title | string | Yes | ||
| viewAllLabel | string | No | ||
| viewAllHref | string | No | '#' | |
| categories | Category[] | No | DEFAULT_CATEGORIES | |
| headingLevel | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | No | 2 | |
| className | string | No | '' |
Using it
The smallest call that compiles — required props only. The import is
written for your own file at src/components/Example.astro;
adjust the relative import if yours sits elsewhere.
Everything optional is in the table above, with its default.
---
import CategoryHoverGallery from './velocity/category-hover-gallery/CategoryHoverGallery.astro';
---
<CategoryHoverGallery
title='title'
/>Built from Category Hover Gallery's own prop signature and the path the CLI installs it to, so it can't drift from either.
Accessibility
- ARIA attributes
- aria-hidden
- Keyboard
- Built on native controls — Enter/Space work as standard
- Motion
- Respects prefers-reduced-motion
Read from the source, not asserted — anything not listed simply isn't in this component's markup.
Behaviour
- Ships client JS
- No — renders to static markup
- Breakpoints
- sm: md: lg:
- Dark mode
- Carries its own dark: variants
Theming
This component paints from 6 steps of
your theme scale — no hardcoded colours, and no font-family of
its own, so your type cascade wins. Override the variables and it follows.
accent-500accent-700primary-400primary-500primary-600primary-700Get the Velocity preset and CSS theme from the public source guide. The CLI theme command is not available on npm yet.
File this creates
The CLI writes this path into your project — nothing
else moves. Paths are under your source root, which defaults to
src/; pass
--dest if yours is elsewhere.
-
src/components/velocity/category-hover-gallery/CategoryHoverGallery.astro142 lines
Copy the paths
src/components/velocity/category-hover-gallery/CategoryHoverGallery.astroCategory Hover Gallery — questions
How do I install Category Hover Gallery?
Run velocityx add category-hover-gallery . The CLI writes the source straight into your project — it is not a runtime package dependency.
Do I need a licence for Category Hover Gallery?
Yes. It is part of the lifetime library — buy access at https://aidxn.com/shop/velocity-x-component-library/, authenticate once, and install it. Your lifetime licence includes future component updates.
Can I edit Category Hover Gallery after installing it?
Yes — the files are yours once written. The CLI compares its lockfile hash before upgrades and refuses to overwrite code you changed.
Does Category Hover Gallery ship JavaScript to my users?
No. It renders to static markup with no client-side JavaScript of its own.
Will Category Hover Gallery match my brand colours?
Yes. It paints entirely from your theme scale — 6 steps of primary-* / accent-* — with no hardcoded hex values and no font-family of its own. Override the theme CSS variables and it follows your design system instead of ours.
Does Category Hover Gallery work on mobile?
It carries its own responsive rules at the sm, md, lg breakpoints, so it re-flows rather than relying on the page around it to do the work.
Does Category Hover Gallery pull in any dependencies?
No external ones. Every component in the library is built with react/react-dom or plain Astro only — no GSAP, Radix, Swiper or Headless UI — which is what makes dropping it into an existing project safe.
Set up & reference
All docs →Install this component:
$ velocityx add category-hover-gallery- 2. Install the theme — run this first, once per project Do this once per project, before your first component.
- The palette gotcha — this one bites silently Silent failure — the component renders, just unstyled.
- Your edits are safe by default What happens to your changes when you upgrade.
- You own the code What you are actually buying.
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