About Shadcn UI Hero Section Blocks
A hero section is the opening block of a page that tells visitors what you offer and what to do next, usually with a headline, a short paragraph, one or two buttons and a supporting visual. These fourteen shadcn hero blocks range from a plain centered headline to full screen photo heroes, an AI prompt box, a hotel booking bar and animated logo or image marquees.
Like the rest of our shadcn blocks, each hero is written in React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS and composed from shadcn ui components such as Button, Badge, Avatar, NavigationMenu, Sheet, Dialog, Calendar and Select. Most of them ship with a responsive navbar and a mobile menu, and the copy covers SaaS, ecommerce, hospitality, agency and healthcare examples you replace with your own shadcn components and content.
Key Elements of a Hero Section
- Headline: one specific sentence that names the outcome, set as the page h1.
- Supporting copy: one or two lines that explain who the product is for and how it helps.
- Primary and secondary action: a strong button such as Get started next to a lighter one such as Learn more or Watch video.
- Announcement badge: a small pill for a release, funding round or trial offer that links to more detail.
- Visual: a screenshot, product photos, a background image or an animation that shows the product instead of describing it.
- Trust signal: customer avatars with a rating, brand logos or a few headline numbers.
Where and Why to Use Hero Section Blocks
The hero carries most of a page’s first impression, so it pays to start from a layout that already handles spacing, responsive type and the mobile menu. Picking a block whose structure matches your offer, such as a booking form for a hotel or a prompt box for an AI tool, gets the main action above the fold without custom layout work. Since the blocks use the same shadcn ui tokens as the rest of your Tailwind CSS pages, they switch between light and dark mode with your theme.
- SaaS homepages: a centered headline with a product screenshot or stat cards and a free trial button.
- AI tools: a prompt box with example prompts that lets visitors try the product from the first screen.
- Online stores: product photos, shopper ratings and Shop Now buttons for a storefront or a new collection.
- Hotels and local services: a full photo background with a booking form or a call button for clinics and studios.
- Agencies: bold copy with track record numbers or a gallery of team and client photos.
- Product launches: a version or announcement badge above the headline that links to the release notes.
Hero Section Blocks in This Collection
- Hero Section 1: The simplest starting point, useful when your page already has a navbar and you only need a message and two actions. It is also the free block in this category.
- Hero Section 2: Choose it when reviews are your strongest argument, since the rating row sits right under the buttons.
- Hero Section 3: Fits a release announcement where a short demo video explains the product better than a screenshot.
- Hero Section 4: Built for AI and generator products that want visitors typing a prompt on the first screen.
- Hero Section 5: Good for communities, investment platforms and startups that want numbers and members to share the first screen with the headline.
- Hero Section 6: Suits brands with strong product photography, such as beauty or fashion, that also want a few business figures beside the pitch.
- Hero Section 7: Works for developer tools and waitlists, collecting an email while the orbiting logos hint at the stack you support.
- Hero Section 8: A good fit for agencies and studios that lead with experience and project counts.
- Hero Section 9: Made for hotels, rentals and travel sites where picking dates is the first thing a visitor should do.
- Hero Section 10: Use it for SaaS and analytics products where one large screenshot does the selling and a single trial button keeps the focus.
- Hero Section 11: A dark, atmospheric opener for consultancies and agencies that want to show their people in a moving strip.
- Hero Section 12: Fits ecommerce brands that want shopper ratings, a story video and partner logos together above the fold.
- Hero Section 13: Designed for clinics and local service businesses where a phone call or an appointment is the conversion.
- Hero Section 14: Suits stores with a large catalog, letting continuously scrolling product photos sit beside the headline and order count.
Similar Block Categories
- Navbars: pair a content only hero with a standalone navigation bar.
- Feature Sections: the natural next block after the hero, explaining what the product does.
- Stats: expand the few numbers in a hero into a full section of results.
- Testimonials: follow the avatar and rating row with full customer quotes.
- Call to Action: repeat the hero’s main action at the bottom of the page.
Accessibility
Every block uses a single h1 for the headline and shadcn Button components, so actions get visible focus rings and keyboard support. The mobile menu triggers in Hero Section 4 to 7 carry an aria-label of “Open menu”, the logo links keep a screen reader name through an sr-only span, and the icon buttons in Hero Section 4 are labelled Add and Send. The video dialogs in Hero Section 3 and 12 include a visually hidden DialogTitle, trap focus while open and offer a close button with sr-only text. In Hero Section 9 the date pickers and guest Select are keyboard operable through Popover, Calendar and Select.
A few gaps are worth fixing before launch. Consider adding an aria-label to the menu buttons in Hero Section 8 to 13, a label for the prompt Textarea in Hero Section 4 and the email Input in Hero Section 7, alt text for the marquee images in Hero Section 14 and a title on the video iframes. The labels in the Hero Section 9 booking bar are not tied to their controls, so connect them with htmlFor and id. The orbit and marquee animations in Hero Section 7, 11 and 14 run continuously, so consider pausing them for visitors who prefer reduced motion.
Hero Sections FAQ
src with your own video.motion/react, and Hero Section 14 also needs react-use-measure for its MarqueeEffect component.speed 30 and drops to speedOnHover 1 while the pointer is over it, so visitors can look at a product. Change both props, or the gap of 12, on the two MarqueeEffect calls.SUGGESTIONS array with your own prompts.checkIn, checkOut and guests state there and send it to your booking API.type="submit" and post the address to your newsletter or waitlist service in the onSubmit handler.NAV_LINKS or NAV_ITEMS for the menu, STATS in Hero Section 6, IMAGES in Hero Section 6 and Hero Section 11, SUGGESTIONS in Hero Section 4 and images in Hero Section 14. Hero Section 8 keeps its four stats in an inline array inside the JSX, and Hero Section 5 and Hero Section 9 write their numbers directly in the markup.npx shadcn@latest add @shadcnuikit/hero1. The other thirteen hero blocks are part of All Access.
