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Buttons are not only good for usability, but also an extremely important design element for your website. For this reason, here is a collection of the best CSS buttons!
Whether thick and bold on your homepage or small and discreet in the footer, buttons are a very important design element for the user flow on your website. For a company website, a more discreet design is often used, whereas creative industries use more eye-catching and “weird” CSS buttons. So that all industries are equally served, you will find many different styles and combinations here.
I – and many other web developers/designers – also set a high value on animations for Hover or Focus, which is why all of the following buttons bring along nice animations. But now we start directly!
The pens shown are licensed with MIT. You can find more info about your own use on the Codepen Blog.
#1 Hover Glow Effect
Author: Kocsten
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#2 Rounded Button
Author: alticreation
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#3 3D Touch
Author: jemware
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#4 Icon buttons
Author: Andrea Maselli
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#5 Blobs button
Author: Hilary
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#6 Thin Buttons
Author: Natalia Reshetnikova
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#7 Bootstrap Buttons
Author: dew31794
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#8 Rounded Pulse Button
Author: Raj Kamal
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#9 CSS Fizzy Button
Author: Jürgen Leister
Coded in: HTML (Haml), CSS (SCSS);
#10 Button N° 045
Author: Vitor Siqueira
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#11 Flush button
Author: AbhishekBaiju
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#12 Button Concept
Author: Shyam
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS (CoffeeScript);
#13 Sliced Button
Author: Sarah
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#14 More fancy Icon buttons
Author: Ishaan Saxena
Coded in: HTML (Pug), CSS (SCSS);
#15 Button Change
Author: thelaazyguy
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#16 Simple Button
Author: Tiberiu Raducea
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#17 Button Flip
Author: Alex Moore
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#18 Swipe Right Button
Author: thelaazyguy
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#19 Fancy Buttons
Author: Alexandre do Vale
Coded in: HTML, CSS, JS;
#20 FlipCover Buttons
Author: Velina V Veleva
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#21 Collection of Button Hover Effects
Author: David Conner
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#22 CSS Button Effect: Animated Border & Glow
Author: Anthony
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#23 CSS Button Hover
Author: Imran Pardes;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#24 Still in View
Author: Alex Bodin;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#25 Pure CSS Button with Ring Indicator
Author: Cole McCombs;
Coded in: HTML, CSS;
#26 Button Hover Effects
Author: Kyle Brumm;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#27 Gooey Menu
Author: Luca Bebber;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#28 SVG CSS3 Menu/Burger Button
Author: Kyle Henwood;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#29 Button bubble effect
Author: Adrien Grsmto;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#30 Animation Submit Button
Author: Valentin Galmand;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#31 Who doesn’t like Fun Buttons?
Author: Derek Morash;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS);
#32 Flipside
Author: Hakim El Hattab;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS;
#33 Squishy Toggle Buttons
Author: Justin Windle;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (Sass);
#35 Submit Button (Anime.js)
Author: Andrew Millen;
Coded in: HTML, CSS (SCSS), JS (jQuery & anime.js);
Which button do you like best? If you have also published buttons on codepen, please let me know so I can extend this list! 🙂
Note: All buttons are all published on codepen.io and not by me.
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Discussion (36)
A button is usually underrated. This shows they deserve way more respect than we give them.
Absolutely 😊
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This is really useful! I was looking for ways to more css based components. Thanks!
I'm glad I could help you! 😊