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Follow Academic philosopher turned web developer. I write/edit technical articles about frontend development and teach coding and English in my hometown. CSS transitions: Animating a toggle button September 12, 2021 10 min read 2803 Editor’s Note: This article was updated in September 2021 with relevant information. The role of web animation goes well beyond that of being a mere piece of decoration. You can use it to guide web visitors’ attention, organize information and make it easier to digest, make loading content feel snappier and more entertaining, and more. Using CSS transitions in your frontend developer’s toolkit, you’ll be able to add flair and improve user experience on the web in as little as a line of code. Here, you’ll learn when CSS transitions make a good choice for your project and how you can implement them to spruce up your website. At the end of this article, you’ll have created a morphing animation on a toggle button using CSS transitions. Let’s begin! CSS transitions vs. keyframe animations You can add smooth motion effects with CSS alone, no JavaScript necessary, either with CSS transitions Transitions let you change the value of a property from its initial state to a final state in response to an event, e.g., mouseenter, mouseout, click, etc. This means that, if your animation has only these two states, CSS transitions will be the best and simplest tool at your disposal. Common use cases for transitions include sliding an off-canvas sidebar in and o...

Made with • HTML / CSS / JS About a code I Love This Button Minimal use of Tailwind in this example just to center the button and set the bg color. Ignore that, could easily be extracted. Using alpine.js just to toggle state on click. Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari Responsive: yes Dependencies: alpine.js Tailwind version: 1.5.0 Made with • HTML / CSS About a code Premium Banner Around Button Works in most browsers, automatically centers text. Be sure to fiddle around with the negative top and right margins to get the correct position for the banner (this also depends on the width and height of the ribbon). Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari Responsive: yes Dependencies: - Tailwind version: 1.2.0

Let me test my psychic powers for a second. I bet the last time you created a CSS hover effect for a button on your site, you flipped the colour of the text with the colour of the background and used a Am I right? Do you feel seen? Or perhaps you google a bit and found a list of Even if not, would you agree that this is the most common way to create CSS hover animations for buttons? I'm not knocking it - I've done it many times myself. It works. But... there are plenty of other ways you can animate your buttons with CSS, which could make your site more fun and help it stand out from the crowd. So let's explore some other options! CSS button gradient effects At the time I'm writing this, you can't animate gradients with CSS - at least, not directly. There is, however, a way to trick CSS into doing what we want - we just make the background larger than the button, and move the background on hover. The result is an animated gradient effect on your buttons. Here are a few examples - you can take one of these and change the gradient colours and angle if you want: See the Pen You can also create an animated gradient effect around the border, instead of the background. Or both: See the Pen Check out this amazing CSS button hover effects using box shadow Remember when you were a kid, and you drew a rectangle, then you added a little shading around two edges to make it look kinda 3D? Well CSS box-shadow does that: See the Pen But, box-shadow gives us a lot of control of how the sha...