Articles Tagged hover

CSS-Tricks has this pretty cool way of styling hovered links. By default, the text is a fairly common blue. But hover of the links, and they’re filled with a linear gradient.… Read article “Excluding Emojis From Transparent Text Clipping”

When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That’s because bold text is often larger and takes up more space. Sometimes that doesn’t matter, like a vertical stack of links where the wider/bolder text doesn’t push anything anyway. Sometimes it does matter, like a horizontal row where the wider/bolder text pushes other elements away a smidge.

Ryan Mulligan demonstrates:… Read article “Bold on Hover… Without the Layout Shift”

Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.… Read article “4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover”

It would surprise me if you’d never come across a ghost button 👻. You know the ones: they have a transparent background that fills with a solid color on hover. Smashing Magazine has a whole article going into the idea. In this article, we’re going to build a ghost button, but that will be the easy part. The fun and tricky part will be animating the fill of that ghost button such that the background fills up in the direction … Read article “Ghost Buttons with Directional Awareness in CSS”

Let’s say you wanted to move an element on :hover for a fun visual effect.

@media (hover: hover) {
  .list--item {
    transition: 0.1s;
    transform: translateY(10px);
  }
  .list--item:hover,
  .list--item:focus {
    transform: translateY(0);
  }
}

Cool cool. But what if you had several list items, and you wanted them all to move on hover, but each one offset with staggered timing?… Read article “Staggered CSS Transitions”

A designer I work with was presenting comps at a recent team meeting. She had done a wonderful job piecing together the concept for a design system, from components to patterns and everything in between that would make any front-end developer happy.

But there was a teeny tiny detail in her work that caught my eye: the hover state for links was a squiggle.… Read article “Having fun with link hover effects”

This is a particular design trick that never fails to catch people’s eye! I don’t know the exact history of who-thought-of-what first and all that, but I know I have seen a number of implementations of it over the years. I figured I’d round a few of them up here.… Read article “Direction Aware Hover Effects”

Let’s say you have a map of the world and you want to be able to highlight the country (or state, or county, etc.) as the cursor hovers over it or it is tapped.

Doable!

First, the map should probably be vector. SVG is almost certainly the right image format choice here. It will give us a crisp looking map at likely a reasonable size, and most importantly, give us the interactivity and easy styling we need.

Let’s use a … Read article “SVG Map Rollovers”