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SplitPanel

Layout

A fixed two-pane layout with per-pane surface tones — panes the user can drag to resize are Layout/Resizable, see [Choosing between similar components](?path=/docs/docs-choosing-between-similar-components--docs).

import { SplitPanel } from "@elabs-ai/components-ui";
Install
npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui

Skipping the @source line is the most common first failure: Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so every component renders unstyled. The one-time wiring

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Add the brand-ui SplitPanel component (from @elabs-ai/components-ui) to this project.

1. Read https://elabs-ai.com/llms.txt first: it maps every package and the rules. If you can use MCP servers, connect https://elabs-ai.com/mcp and use its search, docs and tokens tools. If not, run the same lookups in the terminal: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli search "<what you need>"` and `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs <Component>`.
2. Look SplitPanel up before writing code: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs SplitPanel` prints its real props, variants, what it pairs with and what to avoid.
3. If @elabs-ai/components-ui is not installed yet: `pnpm add @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui` (or `npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui`). If this is the first brand-ui package in the project, wire it once: import `@elabs-ai/components-tokens/styles.css` plus the `themes/light.css` and `themes/dark.css` stylesheets in the CSS entry, add one Tailwind `@source` line per installed @elabs-ai package (Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so without it everything renders unstyled), and wrap the app root in `ThemeProvider` from `@elabs-ai/components-tokens`.
4. Use it here: [the screen or file, and what it should show]
5. Rules: use only @elabs-ai/components-* components and the semantic tokens — no raw colours, no raw font sizes, no arbitrary Tailwind values. Look up each component's real props with the docs tool before you use it; never guess a prop.
6. Done means: the typecheck passes, `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli audit src --strict` reports nothing, and you have opened the app and looked at every screen you touched in the light and the dark theme.

Examples

2 live examples

Tiered

Ground-offset tiering: the detail pane is RAISED as a white card (`endTone="card"`) on the page/list ground, so it reads as a distinct surface in every theme without a heavier divider — a card is lighter than the ground in both light and dark (in light the page itself is recessed below white; see research/structural-design 08 §H). A `muted` list well is a light-theme-only enhancement (in dark, `--surface-muted` reads lighter than `--card`), so this demo keeps the list `plain` to read correctly across every theme.

API

SplitPanel

PropTypeDescription
startrequiredReactNode
endrequiredReactNode
direction"horizontal" | "vertical"Layout axis. Defaults to "horizontal" (side-by-side).
startSizestringSize of the START pane as a CSS grid track (e.g. "320px", "40%", "1fr"). The END pane fills the remainder. Defaults to "1fr" (equal split).
dividerbooleanShow a thin divider between panes. Defaults to true.
startToneSplitPanelToneSurface tone of the START pane (ground-offset tiering). Defaults to "plain".
endToneSplitPanelToneSurface tone of the END pane (ground-offset tiering). Defaults to "plain".
classNamestring
startClassNamestring
endClassNamestring