Indicator
indicator-item positions content relative to its container; application code supplies status/counts. Check overflow, RTL alignment and focus occlusion; a positioned badge is not inherently an interactive control.
Installation and initialization
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
This is a native CSS plugin, not a React component import. Build Tailwind 4 with the daisyUI plugin and load the generated stylesheet before copying an example. See the included setup guide; do not override an existing project's React or Tailwind versions blindly.
@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "daisyui" { themes: light --default, dark --prefersdark; }
Source and executable behavior
Source files preserve the original code fences, including original comments and demo strings. The $$ class prefix placeholder must be resolved for your plugin configuration: without a prefix, $$btn becomes btn. Copy every listed source file for the chosen example, combine HTML/CSS/JS appropriately and implement native events. The preview's reviewed event adapters are not a backend or an automatically installed application runtime.
Complete first example
<div class="$$indicator">
<span class="$$indicator-item $$status $$status-success"></span>
<div class="bg-base-300 grid h-32 w-32 place-items-center">content</div>
</div>
All runnable examples
Status Indicator
indicator-1
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-0.html
Badge as indicator
indicator-2
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-1.html
for button
indicator-3
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-2.html
for tab
indicator-4
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-3.html
for avatar
indicator-5
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-4.html
for an input
indicator-6
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-5.html
A button as an indicator for a card
indicator-7
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-6.html
in center of an image
indicator-8
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-7.html
indicator-top (default) indicator-start
indicator-9
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-8.html
indicator-top (default) indicator-center
indicator-10
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-9.html
indicator-top (default) indicator-end (default)
indicator-11
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-10.html
indicator-middle indicator-start
indicator-12
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-11.html
indicator-middle indicator-center
indicator-13
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-12.html
indicator-middle indicator-end (default)
indicator-14
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-13.html
indicator-bottom indicator-start
indicator-15
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-14.html
indicator-bottom indicator-center
indicator-16
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-15.html
indicator-bottom indicator-end (default)
indicator-17
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-16.html
multiple indicators
indicator-18
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-17.html
Responsive
indicator-19
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/indicator/block-18.html
Theme, accessibility and verification
Use native data-theme boundaries. Verify keyboard operation, labels, visible focus, disabled/invalid states where applicable, light/dark, mobile and reduced motion. Check your target browser's dialog, popover and CSS feature support. CSS classes do not supply unimplemented JavaScript or business services. Clean up timers and third-party instances; copying a command is not installation success.
Source and license
https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui/tree/c51f50130ffefb293179e6fce8de7ad3f307e45f
JGuang authors these bilingual practical notes; this is not a claim of translating the complete upstream documentation. Original Markdown, code and CSS remain available in the source viewer. Preserve MIT and separate dependency notices. All native-package notices are included conservatively, including build tools; no build binary or remote demo image is redistributed. Replace remote media with assets you are authorized to use. Commercial templates are outside this integration.