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Card deck

A stack of cards. Drag the top one left and it flies off and tucks in at the back while the rest step forward with a small spring; drag right and the last one comes back. It works the same with a mouse and a finger; Previous and Next buttons and the arrow keys do it for a keyboard. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it the cards are a row to swipe.

ComponentInteractiveShowpiecesNeeds the runtime: plugin or Etch Studio

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Drag the top card left for the next one, right for the one before, or use the buttons.

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Card deck

Before you copy

This is a showpiece. It pastes into Etch like any other item and it is complete without anything else, but its motion comes from the EtchPress runtime: a small script that loads only on the pages that use a showpiece.

Etch for WordPress: download the EtchPress Runtime plugin from Downloads in your account, install it and activate it. Paste your licence key under Settings, EtchPress Runtime, and it updates from the Plugins screen like any other plugin.

Etch Studio: download the EtchPress runtime files from Downloads in your account, unzip them and drop them into your project's Asset Manager, then paste the item. Studio ships the files it needs with your site.

What you can build with it

Testimonials worth flicking through. A handful of featured projects. Team members on an about page. Product highlights on a phone-first page.

Props

cards (repeater: image, alt, title, text, linkLabel, href); prevLabel (text, empty hides the button); nextLabel (text)

States shown

Stacked: the top card is live, the rest wait behind it. Dragging: the card follows and leans. Released to the left past the threshold or thrown: it leaves and the stack advances. Released to the right: the last card comes back on top. Otherwise it springs back. Previous, Next and the arrow keys do the same. Reduced motion and no runtime: a row with scroll snap.

How to change it

Content and options are 3 props in the component's settings panel. Colour, type, spacing and radius follow your Automatic.css settings, so a change to the site's palette or scale changes this too. For anything else, edit the classes in the Style Manager, starting with .deck. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.

ACSS tokens used

the card variables (–card-padding, –card-gap-tight, –card-radius), space-s, space-m, radius, h4, text-s, primary-dark, text-dark-muted, focus tokens.

ACSS requirements

ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.5.0 or later: the EtchPress Runtime plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files dropped into the project's Asset Manager in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.

Version history

Version 1.1.0, October 10, 2026: Goes both ways: drag right, the left arrow key or the new Previous button brings the last card back. Needs EtchPress Runtime 0.8.0 for the way back; with 0.7.0 a drag either way still moves forward. Version 1.0.1, October 2, 2026: Sizes now follow the width of the place it sits in, not the screen, so it fits a narrow column on a wide screen. Version 1.0.0, October 1, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.5.0.

Tested with

Etch 1.6.7 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.1.0.

Needs the EtchPress runtime

The plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.

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