Headless UI

Completely unstyled, accessible UI components for React and Vue by Tailwind Labs.

Headless UI is an open-source collection of completely unstyled, accessible UI components for React and Vue, created by the Tailwind CSS team. Provides WAI-ARIA compliant components like Menu, Listbox, Switch, Dialog, Popover, Tabs, and more. Designed to pair perfectly with Tailwind CSS.

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About Headless UI

Headless UI provides a carefully crafted set of completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed to integrate with Tailwind CSS. Created by Tailwind Labs, it handles the complex JavaScript behavior, accessibility, and state management while leaving all visual styling to the developer.

The library includes components for Menu (Dropdown), Listbox (Select), Combobox, Switch (Toggle), Disclosure, Dialog (Modal), Popover, Radio Group, Tabs, and Transition. Each component follows WAI-ARIA best practices with proper focus management and keyboard interactions.

Headless UI supports both React and Vue. It's free and open source under the MIT license. While it has fewer components than Radix UI, its tight integration with the Tailwind ecosystem makes it the natural choice for Tailwind-based projects.

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Free and 100% open source under the MIT license. Headless UI has no licensing costs, subscriptions, or commercial restrictions. Maintained by Tailwind Labs, it provides completely unstyled, fully accessible UI component primitives for React and Vue 3 designed to pair natively with Tailwind CSS.

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React and Vue library. npm install. Designed for Tailwind CSS projects.

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Builder.io is a visual development platform that lets teams create and optimize web and mobile content using a drag-and-drop editor that integrates directly with existing codebases and tech stacks (React, Next.js, Qwik, etc.). Empowers non-technical team members to publish and update digital experiences without waiting on developers. Includes headless CMS, A/B testing, and AI-powered Visual Copilot design-to-code.

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Magic MCP is an MCP server from 21st.dev that enables AI agents to generate polished UI components inspired by modern design engineering patterns. It gives coding agents access to a library of high-quality component templates and design patterns, accelerating frontend development through intelligent component scaffolding.

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Headless UI Official Documentation & Repository

Sources checked: September 5, 2026
Content verified: September 6, 2026

Verification dates are editorial checks. Routine CMS saves and automatic updatedAt timestamps do not advance them.

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What is Headless UI?

Is Headless UI free?

Yes — Headless UI is open source and free to use. Free and 100% open source under the MIT license. Headless UI has no licensing costs, subscriptions, or commercial restrictions. Maintained by Tailwind Labs, it provides completely unstyled, fully accessible UI component primitives for React and Vue 3 designed to pair natively with Tailwind CSS.

Is Headless UI open source?

Yes — Headless UI is open source.

Is Headless UI still maintained?

Yes — Headless UI is active. Its listing was last verified on September 6, 2026.

What are the best Headless UI alternatives?

The first editor-selected Headless UI alternatives are v0, Builder.io, Magic MCP.

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