Media Cover Card

Image or video cover card locked to a fixed aspect ratio with a skeleton placeholder, so the cover never shifts the title or meta row as it loads — the fix for cover-card CLS in blog grids, galleries and video libraries.

Cards & Expandables · React · Subscription · commercial licence · v1.0.1 · updated 2026-10-15 · Live demo

Install

velocityx add media-cover-card

Subscription component. Run velocityx login with your key first — get one.

---
import MediaCoverCard from '../components/velocity/media-cover-card/MediaCoverCard.jsx';
---
<MediaCoverCard client:visible />

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
coverType	string	'image'	—
src	—	—	—
poster	—	—	—
alt	string	''	—
ratio	string	'16/9'	—
title	—	—	—
href	—	—	—
meta	array	[]	—
className	string	''	—

Files written

velocityx drops these into your project:

• components/velocity/media-cover-card/MediaCoverCard.jsx

Peer dependencies

react — nothing else. Zero external dependencies is the point.

Theming

Colours come from the primary-* / accent-* Tailwind scales, so this drops into a project that is not Velocity without dragging our brand in. Install the contract once:

velocityx theme

Then set your whole brand in one place — raw RGB channels, not hex (a hex here silently breaks every opacity variant):

:root {
  --vx-brand: custom;
  --vx-primary-600: 220 38 38;
}

There is no component-level font-family anywhere in the library — your font cascade wins.

Licence

Commercial, for the duration of an active Velocity X subscription. The source is served by the licence-gated endpoint, never by the public CDN.