TestimonialBlock

Install and import

TestimonialBlock is in @dovetail-ds/react. Install it with React, if you haven't:

Guidelines

What customers say. One quote is set large and centred; several sit in a grid on the card surface.

Use it when

• Real quotes from named people.

Don't use it when

• Invented quotes. Leave the block out until you have real ones.

Example

<TestimonialBlock
  quotes={[{ quote: "Tokens made the redesign a config change.", name: "Ada Lovelace", role: "Design Systems Lead, Northwind" }]}
/>

Stacking blocks

Blocks are Sections, so a page is a list of them. Alternate tone (base, subtle, base, brand) so one band ends where the next begins, keep one HeroBlock at the top and one CtaBlock at the end, and let everything between be the argument. Pass dark to scope dark mode to a single block.

Title size

Set titleSize to move the title along the type scale, from display-lg down to heading-md. It defaults to heading-lg. Only its size changes: the heading level stays what the block renders.

Tokens

Reads the section, typography and card tokens through Section, Heading and Text; it has none of its own. Retheme it by retheming those.

Accessibility

Each block is a <section>. Give the page one h1 (the HeroBlock's title) and let every other block's title be an h2, which is what they render.

Props

The typed contract, from TestimonialBlock.d.ts.

import * as React from "react";

/** One quote in a TestimonialBlock. */
export interface TestimonialItem {
  quote: React.ReactNode;
  /** Who said it. Also the initials in the default avatar. */
  name?: string;
  /** Their role and company. */
  role?: string;
  /** A custom avatar; defaults to an Avatar from name. */
  avatar?: React.ReactNode;
}

/** What customers say: one quote set large, or several in a grid. */
export interface TestimonialBlockProps extends Omit<React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLElement>, "title"> {
  /** A few words above the title. */
  eyebrow?: React.ReactNode;
  /** The block's heading. */
  title?: React.ReactNode;
  /** The title's type size, on the system's heading and display scale. @default "heading-lg" */
  titleSize?: "display-lg" | "display-md" | "display-sm" | "heading-xl" | "heading-lg" | "heading-md";
  lead?: React.ReactNode;
  quotes: TestimonialItem[];
  /** The band's surface, passed to Section. @default "base" */
  tone?: "base" | "subtle" | "brand" | "brand-muted" | "secondary" | "secondary-muted";
  /** Scopes dark mode to this block, so everything inside reads light on dark. */
  dark?: boolean;
  /** Layers the texture token over the tone. */
  texture?: boolean;
  /** Padding above and below, passed to Section: `sm`, `md`, `lg`, `xl` or `none`, from the module padding steps; `default` is `md` and `compact` is `sm`. @default "default" */
  spacing?: "none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg" | "xl" | "default" | "compact";
  /** Padding above, when it differs from `spacing`. */
  spacingTop?: "none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg" | "xl";
  /** Padding below, when it differs from `spacing`. */
  spacingBottom?: "none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg" | "xl";
  /** `full` spans the screen; `inset` sets the band in from the page edges with the container radius. Passed to Section. @default "full" */
  bleed?: "full" | "inset";
  /** The inner column's width. @default "default" */
  width?: "narrow" | "default" | "wide" | "full";
}

export declare function TestimonialBlock(props: TestimonialBlockProps): React.JSX.Element;

Tokens it reads

Every custom property TestimonialBlock.jsx resolves, read from the source: 6 component, 2 semantic. Component tier first, because that is the one to reach for.

Open the graph

• component Its own tier. Override one of these and only this component moves.
• semantic Shared roles. Override one and everything using that role moves with it.

Source

React only, no dependencies, every value a token.

import React from "react";
import { Section } from "../primitives/Section.jsx";
import { Quote } from "../content/Quote.jsx";
import { Avatar } from "../display/Avatar.jsx";
import { BlockHeader } from "./BlockHeader.jsx";

/* What customers say. One quote is set large and centred; several sit in a
   grid on raised surfaces. */
export function TestimonialBlock({ eyebrow, title, titleSize = "heading-lg", lead, quotes = [], tone = "base", dark, texture, spacing = "default", width = "default", ...rest }) {
  const one = quotes.length === 1;
  const quote = (q, size) => (
    <Quote size={size} attribution={q.name} role={q.role} avatar={q.avatar || (q.name ? <Avatar name={q.name} /> : undefined)}>{q.quote}</Quote>
  );
  return (
    <Section tone={tone} dark={dark} texture={texture} spacing={spacing} width={one ? "narrow" : width} {...rest}>
      <div style={{ display: "flex", flexDirection: "column", gap: "var(--dt-layout-module-gap)", alignItems: one ? "center" : "stretch" }}>
        {(eyebrow || title || lead) && <BlockHeader eyebrow={eyebrow} title={title} size={titleSize} lead={lead} align="center" />}
        {one ? quote(quotes[0], "lg") : (
          <div style={{ display: "grid", gridTemplateColumns: "repeat(auto-fit, minmax(min(100%, 280px), 1fr))", gap: "var(--dt-space-inline-lg)" }}>
            {quotes.map((q, i) => (
              <div key={q.name || i} style={{ padding: "var(--dt-card-padding)", background: "var(--dt-card-bg)", color: "var(--dt-card-fg)", border: "var(--dt-card-border-width) solid var(--dt-card-border-color)", borderRadius: "var(--dt-card-radius)" }}>
                {quote(q, "md")}
              </div>
            ))}
          </div>
        )}
      </div>
    </Section>
  );
}