Falling tags
A box of tags that drop in, pile up with real weight, and can be picked up and thrown, with a mouse or a finger. For skills, services, tools or values. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it the tags are a tidy wrapped row.
Live preview
Pick a tag up and throw it.
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
Skills on a portfolio. Services at a glance. The tools a team works with. Values or topics on an about page.
Props
eyebrow (text, optional); title (text, optional); tags (repeater: label)
States shown
Scrolled into view: the tags fall and settle. Drag one to move it and let go to throw it; the page still scrolls when a finger is on the box and not on a tag. Reduced motion and no runtime: a wrapped row of tags.
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 .tags. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.
ACSS tokens used
space-xs, space-s, space-m, space-l, radius, text-s, primary, primary-dark, primary-ultra-light.
ACSS requirements
ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.6.0 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. The physics is Matter.js (MIT licence), included with the runtime.
Version history
Version 1.0.1, October 11, 2026: The tags in your brand colour keep dark, readable labels in a dark colour scheme too. Version 1.0.0, October 3, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.6.0.
Tested with
Etch 1.6.8 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.1.
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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