ant-design/components/skeleton/index.en-US.md

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category: Components
group: Feedback
title: Skeleton
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Provide a placeholder while you wait for content to load, or to visualize content that doesn't exist yet.

## When To Use

- When a resource needs long time to load.
- When the component contains lots of information, such as List or Card.
- Only works when loading data for the first time.
- Could be replaced by Spin in any situation, but can provide a better user experience.

## Examples

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<code src="./demo/basic.tsx">Basic</code>
<code src="./demo/complex.tsx">Complex combination</code>
<code src="./demo/active.tsx">Active Animation</code>
<code src="./demo/element.tsx">Button/Avatar/Input/Image/Node</code>
<code src="./demo/children.tsx">Contains sub component</code>
<code src="./demo/list.tsx">List</code>

## API

### Skeleton

| Property | Description | Type | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| active | Show animation effect | boolean | false |
| avatar | Show avatar placeholder | boolean \| [SkeletonAvatarProps](#skeletonavatarprops) | false |
| loading | Display the skeleton when true | boolean | - |
| paragraph | Show paragraph placeholder | boolean \| [SkeletonParagraphProps](#skeletonparagraphprops) | true |
| round | Show paragraph and title radius when true | boolean | false |
| title | Show title placeholder | boolean \| [SkeletonTitleProps](#skeletontitleprops) | true |

### SkeletonAvatarProps

| Property | Description | Type | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| active | Show animation effect, only valid when used avatar independently | boolean | false |
| shape | Set the shape of avatar | `circle` \| `square` | - |
| size | Set the size of avatar | number \| `large` \| `small` \| `default` | - |

### SkeletonTitleProps

| Property | Description            | Type             | Default |
| -------- | ---------------------- | ---------------- | ------- |
| width    | Set the width of title | number \| string | -       |

### SkeletonParagraphProps

| Property | Description | Type | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| rows | Set the row count of paragraph | number | - |
| width | Set the width of paragraph. When width is an Array, it can set the width of each row. Otherwise only set the last row width | number \| string \| Array&lt;number \| string> | - |

### SkeletonButtonProps

| Property | Description | Type | Default | Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| active | Show animation effect | boolean | false |  |
| block | Option to fit button width to its parent width | boolean | false | 4.17.0 |
| shape | Set the shape of button | `circle` \| `round` \| `square` \| `default` | - |  |
| size | Set the size of button | `large` \| `small` \| `default` | - |  |

### SkeletonInputProps

| Property | Description           | Type                            | Default |
| -------- | --------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------- |
| active   | Show animation effect | boolean                         | false   |
| size     | Set the size of input | `large` \| `small` \| `default` | -       |