# Avatar

> Initials or a picture in four sizes, a status told by a shape (full, ring, bar, faded), and a group that spreads when you come near, the face you point at saying its name.

Data display · avatar, initials, status, group · HTML, CSS, vanilla JS · no dependencies · updated 2026-10-16
Demo: https://kodza.dev/components/avatar/

## Files

The code below, served as files: byte for byte what the Kodza site copies (the CSS includes its theme guard).

- [`kodza-avatar.css`](https://kodza.dev/registry/avatar/kodza-avatar.css) · 6.9 KB
- [`kodza-avatar.js`](https://kodza.dev/registry/avatar/kodza-avatar.js) · 2.5 KB
- [`kodza-avatar.html`](https://kodza.dev/registry/avatar/kodza-avatar.html) · 1.3 KB · the markup, to adapt and paste into your page

**Can you run shell commands? Download the CSS and the JS, don't retype them.** Retyping costs thousands of tokens and can drop or change lines of the CSS. Put the files where your stack expects them (Use it says where: change the `-o` paths):

```bash
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/kodza-avatar.css https://kodza.dev/registry/avatar/kodza-avatar.css
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/kodza-avatar.js https://kodza.dev/registry/avatar/kodza-avatar.js
```

Then load the files from your page as Use it shows, instead of pasting the content. The HTML is the part you adapt (text, links, modifiers): paste it from the Code section. Copy the CSS and the JS from the Code section only if you can't run commands, exactly as they are. (Windows PowerShell: `curl.exe`.)

## API

- Root: `.kodza-avatar`
- Variables (set them on the root element itself: it declares its own defaults):
  - `--kz-avatar-size: 40px`
  - `--kz-avatar-bg: #e6e6e3`
  - `--kz-avatar-fg: #0a0a0a`
  - `--kz-avatar-ring: #f2f2f0`
  - `--kz-avatar-ink: #0a0a0a`
  - `--kz-avatar-on-ink: #ffffff`
  - `--kz-avatar-ease: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)`
- Modifiers: `.kodza-avatar--lg`, `.kodza-avatar--more`, `.kodza-avatar--sm`, `.kodza-avatar--square`, `.kodza-avatar--xl`
- Attributes:
  - `data-name` (e.g. `Ada Lovelace`, `Linus Torvalds`, `Grace Hopper`, `Alan Turing`, `Margaret Hamilton`)
  - `data-status` (e.g. `away`, `busy`, `offline`, `online`)
- Lifecycle: `kodza:init` / `kodza:destroy` on `document`, with `{ detail: { root } }` to target a container.

## Dark mode

The values Kodza uses on a dark background (`#0a0a0a`). For a page that follows the system theme, add them after the component's CSS:

```css
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  .kodza-avatar {
    --kz-avatar-bg: #2a2a2a;
    --kz-avatar-fg: #f2f2f0;
    --kz-avatar-ring: #0a0a0a;
    --kz-avatar-ink: #f2f2f0;
    --kz-avatar-on-ink: #0a0a0a;
  }

  .kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(3n) {
    background: #4a4a4a;
  }

  .kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar--more {
    box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 0 0 2px #0a0a0a;
  }
}
```

A site with its own theme switch puts the same rules under its dark selector instead (`[data-theme="dark"] .kodza-avatar { … }`); a single dark section, under that section's class.

Its images have dark versions next to them (`kz-block-1400.webp` → `kz-block-dark-1400.webp`). To swap them on a dark page: `<picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="…-dark-….webp"><img …></picture>`.

## Use it

### Plain HTML page

- CSS: `kodza/kodza-avatar.css` next to the page (the Files commands as they are), linked in `<head>`: `<link rel="stylesheet" href="kodza/kodza-avatar.css">`. Without a shell, paste it in a `<style>` in `<head>` instead. It only touches `kodza-` classes.
- HTML: where the component goes. Paste it as many times as you need: instances never interfere.
- JS: `kodza/kodza-avatar.js`, loaded with `<script src="kodza/kodza-avatar.js" defer></script>` in `<head>`. Without a shell, paste it in a `<script>` before `</body>` (or in `<head>`: it waits for the page). One copy per page, whatever the number of instances.
- Restyle with the `--kz-…` variables, set on the component's root element itself (the root declares its own defaults, so a value on an ancestor is ignored), and with the modifiers / attributes listed under API.
- Font: it takes the page's own. The Kodza look is Geist: `<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Geist:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Geist+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap">`.
- Content added later (AJAX navigation, a SPA route, a builder preview): start it with `document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root: container } }))`; before removing it, the same call with `'kodza:destroy'` stops it and puts the original markup back.

### Claude artifact (claude.ai)

- Paste the CSS in a `<style>` and the JS in a `<script>` at the end, in the artifact itself: it loads stylesheets only from Google Fonts and scripts only from a few CDNs, so no `<link>` or `<script src>` to Kodza.
- Writing the artifact file with a shell? Insert the downloaded files (Files) with a command instead of retyping them: a line `KODZA-CSS` alone inside the `<style>`, `KODZA-JS` inside the `<script>`, then `sed -e '/^KODZA-CSS$/{r kodza/kodza-avatar.css' -e 'd' -e '}' -e '/^KODZA-JS$/{r kodza/kodza-avatar.js' -e 'd' -e '}' page.html > artifact.html`.
- Font: load Geist from Google Fonts (allowed): `<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Geist:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Geist+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap">`.
- Images: the artifact blocks every other host, `kodza.dev` included, without an error. Embed each one as a `data:` URI, with a command if you can run one (`curl -s <url> | base64`; the 1400 px files weigh 10 to 30 KB), never by typing base64 out. If you can't run commands, keep the `<img>` with its `width` and `height`, and tell the user the picture stays blank inside the artifact.
- Dark mode: the viewer sets `data-theme="dark"` or `"light"` on `<html>`, or nothing when it follows the system. Write the Dark mode rules twice: inside `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` with `:root:not([data-theme="light"])` in front of each selector, and with `:root[data-theme="dark"]` in front of each selector.

### WordPress

- HTML: a **Custom HTML** block (or a pattern / template part). WordPress keeps this markup as it is only for users allowed to post unfiltered HTML (Administrators; Super Admins on multisite): for anyone else it strips tags such as `<svg>`, `<input>` or `<dialog>`, so add it from the theme (a pattern or template part) instead.
- This one is inline (it flows like a word): pasted alone, many themes leave it at the edge of the page (block themes, and classic ones like Twenty Twenty-One or Blocksy), so put the Custom HTML block inside a **Group** block to line it up with the text.
- CSS and JS: the downloaded files go in the theme, under `wp-content/themes/<your-theme>/kodza/` (the child theme if there is one), enqueued from its functions.php (or a code-snippets plugin):
  ```php
  add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', function () {
    $dir = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/kodza/';
    $uri = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/kodza/';
    wp_enqueue_style('kodza-avatar', $uri . 'kodza-avatar.css', [], filemtime($dir . 'kodza-avatar.css'));
    wp_enqueue_script('kodza-avatar', $uri . 'kodza-avatar.js', [], filemtime($dir . 'kodza-avatar.js'), true);
  });
  ```
  Scoped to `kodza-` classes, the CSS never touches the theme. One copy of the JS, whatever the number of blocks.
- No access to the theme files? The CSS can also go, as it is, in **Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS** (classic theme) or **Styles → Additional CSS** in the Site Editor (block theme).
- Theme with AJAX page transitions: fire `kodza:init` on the new content after each swap (and `kodza:destroy` on the old one).
- Performance plugin (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, Perfmatters…) with **Delay JavaScript execution** turned on: add `kodza` to the scripts it must not delay. Otherwise the component waits for the visitor's first scroll, tap or mouse move, and that first click can be lost.
- Colours: by default, match the theme's palette. After the component's CSS, point these variables at the theme's colours, on the component root, Kodza's value as the fallback:
  `.kodza-avatar { --kz-avatar-fg: var(TEXT, #0a0a0a); --kz-avatar-ink: var(ACCENT, #0a0a0a); --kz-avatar-on-ink: var(BACKGROUND, #ffffff); }`
  TEXT, BACKGROUND and ACCENT (the colour the theme fills its own buttons with) are the theme's own colour variables — block themes (theme.json, like Twenty Twenty-Five): `--wp--preset--color--contrast`, `--wp--preset--color--base`, `--wp--preset--color--contrast` (they fill their buttons with it; their accent-1… colours are decorative); Astra: `--ast-global-color-2`, `--ast-global-color-4`, `--ast-global-color-0`; Kadence: `--global-palette3`, `--global-palette9`, `--global-palette1`; GeneratePress: `--contrast`, `--base-3`, `--accent`; Blocksy: `--theme-palette-color-4`, `--theme-palette-color-8`, `--theme-palette-color-1`. Use only these names, and only if the site really has them (the theme's CSS, or Styles → Colors): the `--wp--preset--color--black`, `--white`, `--vivid-…` that WordPress adds everywhere are not the theme's palette. Another theme, or one without these variables (Hello Elementor, OceanWP): leave the variables alone, it keeps Kodza's monochrome; same when the developer asks for monochrome or the Kodza look. Leave the translucent greys (`rgba(10, 10, 10, …)`) as they are: they suit any light background. On a dark palette, set the other variables from Dark mode too.
- WordPress turns straight quotes and `--` into typographic ones in the text of a Custom HTML block (not inside `<code>` or `<pre>`).

#### With Elementor

- HTML: an **HTML** widget (Elementor shows it to administrators only). It keeps the code exactly as pasted, straight quotes included.
- CSS and JS: as above. Elementor's Site Settings → Theme Style styles every button, field, link and image of the page, components included; the theme guard at the end of the CSS keeps the component's buttons, fields and link colours as they are.
- The Elementor editor redraws each widget after the page has loaded: without the script below, the component stays still in the editor preview (the published page works). Add it once per site, in the footer like the component's script (`kodza/elementor-editor.js`, or a code-snippets plugin):

```js
// Kodza in the Elementor editor: the editor redraws each HTML widget after the page has loaded.
// Start Kodza in what it draws, stop it in what it replaces or removes. Once per site.
window.addEventListener('elementor/frontend/init', () => {
  if (!elementorFrontend.isEditMode()) return;
  class KodzaWidget extends elementorModules.frontend.handlers.Base {
    onInit() {
      super.onInit();
      this.kodza = [...this.$element[0].children];
      document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root: this.$element[0] } }));
    }
    onDestroy() {
      super.onDestroy();
      this.kodza.forEach((root) => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:destroy', { detail: { root } })));
    }
  }
  elementorFrontend.elementsHandler.attachHandler('html', KodzaWidget);
});
```

- No child theme: everything can go in the HTML widget instead, `<style>` with the CSS, the HTML, then `<script>` with the JS. It works on the page and in the editor without the script above.

### Shopify

- Files: `assets/kodza-avatar.css` and `assets/kodza-avatar.js` (the Files commands with `-o assets/…`).
- In the section: `{{ 'kodza-avatar.css' | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }}` and `<script src="{{ 'kodza-avatar.js' | asset_url }}" defer></script>`, then the HTML.
- The theme editor re-renders sections: restart them with
  `document.addEventListener('shopify:section:load', (e) => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root: e.target } })));`
  and the same with `shopify:section:unload` → `kodza:destroy`.

### React / Next.js

- Files, side by side (e.g. in `components/kodza/`): `Avatar.tsx` (below), the CSS block under Code saved as `avatar.css` and the JS block as `avatar.js`, both as they are. The HTML block is already inside the component: skip it.
- Use it: `import { Avatar } from '@/components/kodza/Avatar';` then `<Avatar />`. Props: `variant` ("lg", "more", "sm", "square", "xl", or several in an array), `status` (`data-status`: "online", "away", "busy", "offline"), `vars` (the `--kz-…` variables listed under API, e.g. `vars={{ '--kz-avatar-size': … }}`), `className`, `style` and the other props of its `<span>` (`onClick`, `aria-…`).
- Next.js App Router: it is a Client Component already (`'use client'`). Pages Router: Next.js takes global CSS only in `pages/_app`, so move the `import './avatar.css'` line there.
- Safe under StrictMode, client-side navigation and prop changes: when a prop changes, the `key` gives React a fresh element, `kodza:destroy` stops the script on the old one and `kodza:init` starts it on the new one.

```tsx
'use client';
// Kodza — Avatar, for React. From https://kodza.dev/components/avatar/
// Kodza License: free to use, client work included. Not to resell or redistribute, ported or not: https://kodza.dev/docs/#print-license
// Next to this file: avatar.css and avatar.js, the component's CSS and JS from Kodza, as they are.
// Yours to edit: the markup is plain JSX below.
// The script changes this markup once React has rendered it (it adds layers, splits text, moves
// nodes), so React must not patch it afterwards. When a prop changes, the key gives React a fresh
// element: kodza:destroy stops the script on the old one, kodza:init starts it on the new one.
import { useRef, useEffect, type ComponentPropsWithoutRef, type ComponentRef, type CSSProperties } from 'react';
import './avatar.css';

type Variant = "lg" | "more" | "sm" | "square" | "xl";

export type AvatarProps = Omit<ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'span'>, "children" | "variant" | "vars" | "status"> & {
  /** Modifier class(es): .kodza-avatar--lg, .kodza-avatar--more, .kodza-avatar--sm, .kodza-avatar--square, .kodza-avatar--xl */
  variant?: Variant | Variant[];
  /** data-status on the root */
  status?: "online" | "away" | "busy" | "offline";
  /** Settings, as CSS variables on the root */
  vars?: {
    /** default: 40px */
    "--kz-avatar-size"?: string | number;
    /** default: #e6e6e3 */
    "--kz-avatar-bg"?: string | number;
    /** default: #0a0a0a */
    "--kz-avatar-fg"?: string | number;
    /** default: #f2f2f0 */
    "--kz-avatar-ring"?: string | number;
    /** default: #0a0a0a */
    "--kz-avatar-ink"?: string | number;
    /** default: #ffffff */
    "--kz-avatar-on-ink"?: string | number;
    /** default: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1) */
    "--kz-avatar-ease"?: string | number;
  };
  className?: string;
};

export function Avatar({ variant, status, vars, className, style, ...rest }: AvatarProps) {
  const ref = useRef<ComponentRef<'span'>>(null);
  const classes = ["kodza-avatar", "kodza-avatar--xl", "kodza-avatar--square", ...([] as string[]).concat(variant ?? []).map((v) => `kodza-avatar--${v}`), className].filter(Boolean).join(' ');
  // Everything the markup is made of: when it changes, React gets a fresh element (see the top)
  const key = JSON.stringify([classes, status, vars, style, rest]);

  // Starts the script on this element once React has rendered it, stops it when it goes
  useEffect(() => {
    const root = ref.current;
    let live = true;
    // @ts-ignore: a plain script, no types to find
    import('./avatar.js').then(() => {
      if (live) document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root } }));
    });
    return () => {
      live = false;
      document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:destroy', { detail: { root } }));
    };
  }, [key]);

  return (
    <span key={key} {...rest} className={classes} data-status={status} style={{ ...vars, ...style } as CSSProperties} ref={ref}>
      <img src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-block-1400.webp" alt="Kodza" />
    </span>
  );
}
```

## Code

```html
<span class="kodza-avatar kodza-avatar--xl kodza-avatar--square"><img src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-block-1400.webp" alt="Kodza" /></span>
<span class="kodza-avatar kodza-avatar--lg" data-status="online" role="img" aria-label="Ada Lovelace, online">AL</span>
<span class="kodza-avatar" data-status="away" role="img" aria-label="Linus Torvalds, away">LT</span>
<span class="kodza-avatar kodza-avatar--sm" data-status="busy" role="img" aria-label="Grace Hopper, busy">GH</span>
<span class="kodza-avatar kodza-avatar--sm" data-status="offline" role="img" aria-label="Alan Turing, offline">AT</span>

<div class="kodza-avatar-group" role="group" aria-label="Ada, Linus, Grace, Alan, Margaret and 12 more">
  <span class="kodza-avatar" data-name="Ada Lovelace" role="img" aria-label="Ada Lovelace">AL</span>
  <span class="kodza-avatar" data-name="Linus Torvalds" role="img" aria-label="Linus Torvalds">LT</span>
  <span class="kodza-avatar" data-name="Grace Hopper" role="img" aria-label="Grace Hopper">GH</span>
  <span class="kodza-avatar" data-name="Alan Turing" role="img" aria-label="Alan Turing">AT</span>
  <span class="kodza-avatar" data-name="Margaret Hamilton" role="img" aria-label="Margaret Hamilton">MH</span>
  <span class="kodza-avatar kodza-avatar--more" aria-hidden="true">+12</span>
</div>
```

```css
/* Kodza License: free to use, client work included. Not to resell or redistribute, ported or not: https://kodza.dev/docs/#print-license */
/* Kodza — Avatar
   Initials or a picture, in four sizes (--sm, default, --lg, --xl), round or --square (a team,
   a company). data-status says where someone is by a shape, not a color: online is a full dot,
   away a ring, busy a dot crossed by a bar, offline a faded dot. A group overlaps its faces;
   come near and they spread a little, the one you point at lifts and says its name.
   A picture that fails to load falls back to the initials of its alt text.
   Everything is tuned with the --kz-avatar-* variables. */
.kodza-avatar {
  --kz-avatar-size: 40px;
  --kz-avatar-bg: #e6e6e3;
  --kz-avatar-fg: #0a0a0a;
  --kz-avatar-ring: #f2f2f0;
  --kz-avatar-ink: #0a0a0a;
  --kz-avatar-on-ink: #ffffff;
  --kz-avatar-ease: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1);

  position: relative;
  display: inline-grid;
  flex: none;
  place-items: center;
  width: var(--kz-avatar-size);
  height: var(--kz-avatar-size);
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: var(--kz-avatar-bg);
  color: var(--kz-avatar-fg);
  font-size: calc(var(--kz-avatar-size) * 0.36);
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.01em;
  line-height: 1;
  vertical-align: middle;
  user-select: none;
}

.kodza-avatar--sm { --kz-avatar-size: 32px; }
.kodza-avatar--lg { --kz-avatar-size: 56px; }
.kodza-avatar--xl { --kz-avatar-size: 72px; }

.kodza-avatar--square {
  border-radius: calc(var(--kz-avatar-size) * 0.26);
}

/* Laid over the box, so a picture of any shape fills the circle or the square and never stretches
   it (in the grid, height: 100% followed the picture: a 4:5 photo stood 18px out of a 72px square) */
.kodza-avatar img {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: inherit;
  object-fit: cover;
}

/* Status: a shape in a ring of the page's color */
.kodza-avatar[data-status]::after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: calc(var(--kz-avatar-size) * 0.28);
  height: calc(var(--kz-avatar-size) * 0.28);
  min-width: 9px;
  min-height: 9px;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: var(--kz-avatar-ink);
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px var(--kz-avatar-ring);
}

.kodza-avatar[data-status="away"]::after {
  background: var(--kz-avatar-ring);
  border: 2px solid var(--kz-avatar-ink);
}

.kodza-avatar[data-status="busy"]::after {
  background:
    linear-gradient(var(--kz-avatar-ring), var(--kz-avatar-ring)) center / 56% 2px no-repeat,
    var(--kz-avatar-ink);
}

.kodza-avatar[data-status="offline"]::after {
  background: var(--kz-avatar-bg);
  border: 2px solid var(--kz-avatar-fg);
  opacity: 0.45;
}

/* Group: overlapping faces in a ring of the page's color, three tones of grey */
.kodza-avatar-group {
  --kz-avatar-spread: 6px;

  display: inline-flex;
  align-items: center;
  padding-left: 10px;
}

.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar {
  margin-left: -10px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px var(--kz-avatar-ring);
  transform: translateX(calc(var(--kz-avatar-i, 0) * var(--kz-avatar-gap, 0px)));
  transition: transform 0.5s var(--kz-avatar-ease);
}

.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(3n + 2) {
  background: var(--kz-avatar-ink);
  color: var(--kz-avatar-on-ink);
}

.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(3n) {
  background: #c9c9c5;
}

.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(2) { --kz-avatar-i: 1; }
.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(3) { --kz-avatar-i: 2; }
.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(4) { --kz-avatar-i: 3; }
.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(5) { --kz-avatar-i: 4; }
.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(6) { --kz-avatar-i: 5; }
.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar:nth-child(7) { --kz-avatar-i: 6; }

.kodza-avatar-group:hover .kodza-avatar {
  --kz-avatar-gap: var(--kz-avatar-spread);
}

.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar--more {
  background: var(--kz-avatar-ring);
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.16), 0 0 0 2px var(--kz-avatar-ring);
  color: var(--kz-avatar-fg);
  font-size: calc(var(--kz-avatar-size) * 0.32);
}

/* The face you point at lifts and says its name */
.kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar[data-name]:hover {
  z-index: 1;
  transform: translateX(calc(var(--kz-avatar-i, 0) * var(--kz-avatar-gap, 0px))) translateY(-4px);
}

.kodza-avatar[data-name]::before {
  content: attr(data-name);
  position: absolute;
  bottom: calc(100% + 10px);
  left: 50%;
  padding: 6px 10px;
  border-radius: 8px;
  background: var(--kz-avatar-ink);
  color: var(--kz-avatar-on-ink);
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight: 500;
  letter-spacing: 0;
  white-space: nowrap;
  opacity: 0;
  pointer-events: none;
  transform: translate(-50%, 4px);
  transition: opacity 0.2s ease, transform 0.35s var(--kz-avatar-ease);
}

.kodza-avatar[data-name]:hover::before {
  opacity: 1;
  transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .kodza-avatar-group .kodza-avatar,
  .kodza-avatar[data-name]::before {
    transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
  }
}

/* Theming example — on a dark background:
.dark-section .kodza-avatar {
  --kz-avatar-bg: #2a2a2a;
  --kz-avatar-fg: #f2f2f0;
  --kz-avatar-ring: #0a0a0a;
  --kz-avatar-ink: #f2f2f0;
  --kz-avatar-on-ink: #0a0a0a;
}
*/

/* kodza-guard d836f2eb6c91 — generated by Kodza, do not edit.
   Theme guard: keeps a site's own CSS (WordPress themes, Bootstrap, CSS resets…) off this
   component. :not(#_) is always true and weighs as much as an id, so these lines win over
   theme rules made of classes and tags. Customise the component through its --kz-* variables. */

/* What the browser gives, on everything the component leaves to it */

.kodza-avatar:not(#_) {
  box-sizing: revert;
}

.kodza-avatar img:where(:not([class*="kodza-"])):not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  margin: revert;
  padding: revert;
  outline: revert;
  text-decoration: revert;
  transition: revert;
  list-style: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-width: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  color: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
}

.kodza-avatar img:where(:not([class*="kodza-"])):not(#_):where(:not([hidden])) {
  display: revert;
}

.kodza-avatar img:where(:not([class*="kodza-"])):not(#_):where([hidden]) {
  display: none;
}

.kodza-avatar:not(#_)::before {
  box-sizing: revert;
}

/* The component's own rules, one step stronger: real buttons and fields, what it sets on tags themes style (links, lists, headings, images…), and the root width (a theme may narrow it, never widen it) */

.kodza-avatar img:not(#_) {
  position: absolute;
  border-radius: inherit;
}
```

```js
// Kodza License: free to use, client work included. Not to resell or redistribute, ported or not: https://kodza.dev/docs/#print-license
// Kodza — Avatar
// A picture that fails to load gives way to the initials of its alt text.
(() => {
  const SELECTOR = '.kodza-avatar';
  // One instance. Everything it starts is tied to `signal`, so kodza:destroy stops it all
  function mount(root, signal) {
    const img = root.querySelector('img');
    const fallback = () => {
      const initials = (img.alt || '?').split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).slice(0, 2).map((word) => word[0].toUpperCase()).join('');
      root.setAttribute('role', 'img');
      root.setAttribute('aria-label', img.alt || '');
      img.replaceWith(document.createTextNode(initials));
    };
    if (img) {
      if (img.complete && !img.naturalWidth && img.getAttribute('src')) fallback();
      else img.addEventListener('error', fallback, { once: true, signal });
    }
  }

  // Kodza lifecycle, the same in every component: `kodza:init` starts the instances inside
  // event.detail.root (the whole page by default), `kodza:destroy` stops them and puts their
  // markup back. For themes and apps that swap content without a page load.
  const instances = new WeakMap();
  const find = (scope = document) => [scope, ...scope.querySelectorAll(SELECTOR)].filter((el) => el.matches?.(SELECTOR));
  const init = (scope) => find(scope).forEach((root) => {
    if (root.classList.contains('is-ready')) return; // already running, maybe from another copy of this script
    const controller = new AbortController();
    instances.set(root, { controller, html: root.innerHTML, attrs: [...root.attributes].map((a) => [a.name, a.value]) });
    mount(root, controller.signal);
    root.classList.add('is-ready');
  });
  const destroy = (scope) => find(scope).forEach((root) => {
    const instance = instances.get(root);
    if (!instance) return;
    instances.delete(root);
    instance.controller.abort();
    [...root.attributes].forEach((a) => root.removeAttribute(a.name));
    instance.attrs.forEach(([name, value]) => root.setAttribute(name, value));
    root.innerHTML = instance.html;
  });
  document.addEventListener('kodza:init', (event) => init(event.detail?.root));
  document.addEventListener('kodza:destroy', (event) => destroy(event.detail?.root));
  init();
  // Loaded in <head>, the script runs before the markup exists: once more when it is parsed
  if (document.readyState === 'loading') document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => init(), { once: true });
})();
```

Free to use, from Kodza (https://kodza.dev).