When you hover, the icon expands and spreads over the text. It looks like a text link with a little icon next to it, but looks can be deceiving - the whole thing is actually the button. Here's a unique hover effect that might be useful to you: 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:īut, box-shadow gives us a lot of control of how the shadow appears:Īnd, we can animate all of this! Here are some creative ideas on how you can use box-shadow in your button hover effects:Ĭheck out Mozilla's article on box-shadow to learn more. CSS button hover effects using box shadow Or both:Ĭheck out this amazing CSS generator for shadows with gradients and how to create a round button with CSS, so you can take a look at a few examples too. You can also create an animated gradient effect around the border, instead of the background. Here are a few examples - you can take one of these and change the gradient colours and angle if you want: The result is an animated gradient effect on your buttons. 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. So let's explore some other options! CSS button gradient effectsĪt the time I'm writing this, you can't animate gradients with CSS - at least, not directly. 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. Or perhaps you google a bit and found a list of cool CSS animations to add to your website and picked a couple of them, right?Įven 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. 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 transition of somewhere between 0.3 and 0.5 seconds. Let me test my psychic powers for a second.
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