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59 Free CSS Buttons

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Jul 20, 2023 12 min read
59 Free CSS Buttons
listed the hand-picked awesome css buttons developed using only css and html. tutorials well played with colors, gradients or shapes.

Collection of free, hand-picked CSS Buttons. It will be updated with two new buttons on July 20, 2023.

Welcome to our eye-catching collection of free CSS button samples! Each of the examples presented here has been skillfully created using HTML and CSS, giving you many ideas for your web design projects.

These CSS buttons will grab your attention, whether you’re a front-end developer, a web designer, or just someone who is curious about them. Our collection includes a variety of themes ideal for various online apps, from elegant, minimalistic layouts to colorful, dynamic ones.

Psychedelic Buttons

Author: Luke Meyrick · Made with: Pug / SCSS · Created: June 23,2021 · Updated: June 27,2021

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CSS Skateboard

Author: Luke Meyrick · Made with: Pug / SCSS · Created: June 19,2021 · Updated: June 21,2021

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CSS Button Rollover – Growing border

Demo image:https://www.w3tweaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/css-button-growing-button.gif

Author: r8n5n · Made with: HTML / CSS · Created: September 23,2013 · Updated: September 23,2013

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Generic CSS Button Kit

Demo image:https://www.w3tweaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/generic-css-button-kit.gif

Author: Phil Hoyt · Made with: HTML / CSS · Created: February 03,2014 · Updated: February 03,2014

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Colorful CSS Buttons

Demo image:https://www.w3tweaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/colorful-css-button.gif

Author: Pali Madra · Made with: HTML / CSS · Created: June 24,2014 · Updated: June 24,2014

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CSS button hover effect

tags: button, hover, simple, design, material

Author: Julia · Made with: HTML / CSS · Created: FEBRUARY 14, 2017 · Updated: SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

CSS Button Hover

Pure CSS button. (Tags: CSS, button, animation, SVG, hover)

Author: Imran Pardes · Made with: HTML / CSS · Created: July 8, 2018 · Updated: OCTOBER 26, 2018

Pure CSS loading animation for buttons

Pure CSS loading animation for buttons

A simple test with pure CSS loading animation for buttons (uses jQuery to toggle class).

Author: Robin · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JANUARY 30, 2015

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Shifting Material Button Modal

Shifting Material Button Modal

Two call-to-action buttons that give context to your modals in a Material Design fashion.

Author: Ettrics · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: MARCH 18, 2015

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Button with Built-in Loading Indicator -JS and SCSS

Button with Built-in Loading Indicator -JS and SCSS

Button with Built-in Loading Indicator

Author: Elior Tabeka · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: AUGUST 15, 2016

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Simple CSS buttons for Disabled Buttons

Simple CSS for Disabled Buttons

For browsers that support CSS3, there’s a simple cursor available to help users understand certain elements that may be disabled due to page logic. So, if you have a button that becomes enabled only after a certain page action is taken (like filling out a form), you can use cursor: not-allowed to reinforce the state using the mouse pointer.

Author: Scott Dawson · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: MARCH 19, 2013

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Submit button loader after submit

Submit button loader after submit

Submit button with loader after submit. No CSS Keyframes, all one JS timeline + SVG.

Author: auginator · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: AUGUST 05, 2014

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Button animation practice

Button animation practice

Button animation practice

Author: lichinlin · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: APRIL 21, 2016

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SVG Button hover effect with snap.svg

SVG Button hover effect with snap.svg

Simple button hover effect by replacing the text in a button with an svg element which mimics the button in order to create an effect which can not (easily?) be done with css.

Author: Joost Kiens · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JULY 12, 2017

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Gradient Button with translate

Gradient Button

Gradient button with translate on hover

Author: Eric Grucza · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: APRIL 08, 2015

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3D Paper button effects

3D Paper button effects

Try out and illustrate some of the subtle button effects you can create just using box-shadow and borders on pseudo–elements. Tested in latest Chrome and Firefox, but no reason it shouldn’t work in all latest browsers.

Author: Ashley Nolan · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JULY 15, 2014

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Button Hover States

Button Hover States

Snazzy CSS hover states for a button.

Author: James Power · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: MAY 15, 2015

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Button Hover Effects

Button Hover Effects

Some button hover effects using psuedo elements and borders.

Author: Kyle Brumm · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: NOVEMBER 23, 2014

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Pulsing Button

Pulsing Button

Pulsing button using css3 keyframe animation.

Author: Sean Michael · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JULY 24, 2013

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Twitter Button Concept using only CSS

Twitter Button Concept using only CSS

Nice twitter button with door open like concept

Author: Bennett Feely · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 15, 2013

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Some simple buttons

some simple buttons

Just some simple buttons

Author: Ottis Kelleghan · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JUNE 15, 2013

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Button using :after and box-shadow

Button using :after and box-shadow

Hover Buttons which look good, feel good and work good. This requires only CSS. Pure CSS button fun, no strings attached – Just Hover and appreciate!

Author: punit chawla · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 21, 2019

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Purely CSS Button

Purely CSS Button

Amazing and powerful the CSS Check-Box Hack is. No JS in this button!

Author: Jorge Reyes · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 22, 2019

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The radio button highlight Underground

Underground radios

The radio button highlight travels underground

Author: Mikael Ainalem · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 15, 2019

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3D Retro Buttons

3D Retro Buttons

3D push buttons with a retro style and font. The first button is a push button that pushes to the center and tilts left or right based on the cursor’s location while hovering. It is styled similar to an old-school game console button. These buttons have been configured with a sm, md, lg size classes along with bootstrap-esque classes such as primary, secondary, danger, warning, success and info. Second button is a loader button with it’s own progress bar when pushed. It only pushes in the center, but then opens upwards to show a progress bar on it’s front side. It will either show a checkmark or X when finished based on success of action.

Author: Mike @ Titan Global Tech · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: AUGUST 06, 2018

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Animated CSS Button

Animated CSS Button

First take on newest CodePen challenge. Animated button in Sass

Author: Anno H. · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 09, 2019

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Custom Checkbox and radio button Checklists

Custom Checkbox and radio button Checklists

Custom Checklists Step-by-Step Guide. Have demo for both radio and checkbox custom tutorial and demo

Author: Brandon McConnell · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: APRIL 25, 2018

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Progress Button Microinteractions

Progress Button Microinteractions

Made an example button for uploading with microinteraction.

Author: Takane Ichinose · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JANUARY 08, 2019

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Slidey radios

Slidey radios (swappy radios remix)

A less-weird-but-still-weird remix of ‘Swappy radios’

Author: Liam · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JANUARY 05, 2019

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Transitional Buttons using only CSS

Transitional Buttons

Using of transitions in button hover effects.

Author: Vitaliy · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: APRIL 15, 2014

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Angularjs Material floating button directive

Angularjs Material floating button directive

Customizable, semantic Material design floating action menu with buttons, implemented as an Angularjs directive. Also available in vanilla html.

Author: nobitagit · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: DECEMBER 15, 2014

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CSS3 Rounded Buttons

CSS3 Rounded Buttons

CSS3 Rounded Buttons developed using css and html

Author: Burak Kaya · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: DECEMBER 10, 2012

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CSS3 3d flip button

CSS3 3d flip button

CSS3 button w/ 3d transform using no JS, no imgs, and No icon-fonts

Author: Sean Michael · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

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3D Parallax Buttons

3D Parallax Buttons

3D pushable buttons with a real perspective and a parallax-like effect when scrolling. Made with CSS 3D transforms.

Author: Alexander Futekov · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: MAY 08, 2013

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Topcoat Button Bar

Topcoat Button Bar

Default style for Topcoat Button Bar. Requirements are portable and accessible markup with flexible and performant css. No javascript required

Author: Topcoat · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: AUGUST 07, 2013

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Hand-Drawn Border Buttons

Hand-Drawn Border Buttons

“Hand-Drawn” border effect on buttons w/CSS border-radius. FYI: There is a bug when rendering the dotted / dashed borders in FF. Rendering solid borders in FF is fine.

Author: Tiffany Rayside · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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Colorful CSS Buttons

Colorful CSS Buttons

A collection of various types of CSS buttons in various colors.

Author: Chris Deacy · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: MAY 04, 2015

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Button bubble effect

Button bubble effect

A hover effect using the gooey tricks.

Author: Adrien Grsmto · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JUNE 30, 2015

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CSS-only Custom Radio Buttons

CSS only Custom Radio Buttons

Based on the webdesign tuts+ article (link below) but instead of using images I used only css.

Author: Mitch McCline · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: MAY 13, 2013

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Flyaway Send Button

Flyaway Send Button

A basic CSS animation that makes a paper airplane fly out of this “Send” button when clicked.

Author: Adrian Del Balso · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JUNE 18, 2014

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Bubbly Button with click effect

Bubbly Button with click effect

Made the bubbles using “radial-gradient” for background-image. I believe this property is so cool that you can draw many things without adding extra divs or pseudo elements (::before and ::after)

Author: Nour Saud · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JANUARY 20, 2018

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3D flip button

3D flip button

Prototype for 3D flip button.

Author: Rik Schennink · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JUNE 07, 2013

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Sign-post arrow buttons

Sign-post arrow buttons

Sass mixin for creating arrow buttons. Uses transform: skew on pseudo-elements. CSS arrow buttons

Author: Giana · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: AUGUST 09, 2015

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Button hover effects with box-shadow

Button hover effects with box-shadow

Making some basic animations with box-shadows. No extra elements or even pseudo elements required.

Author: Giana · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JUNE 04, 2017

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Organic Button

Organic Button

Elastic button, has pounding hearth for loading animation, will burst into ready state once done.

Author: Rik Schennink · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: MARCH 12, 2014

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CSS3 Button Hover Effects with FontAwesome

CSS3 Button Hover Effects with FontAwesome

Pure CSS3 Button Hover Effects

Author: fox_hover · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: APRIL 04, 2017

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Activate Button animation

Activate Button animation

Cool Activate and Waiting Button animation using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Author: Aaron Iker · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: DECEMBER 17, 2018

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Creative Buttons using just CSS

Creative Buttons using just CSS

Creative Buttons using just CSS. Can be converted to SCSS for flexibility

Author: Nathan Schmidt · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: MARCH 08, 2018

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CSS button with different transition effects

CSS button with different transition effects

CSS Button with different on hover transition effects developed using css and html.

Author: Robin Treur · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: DECEMBER 03, 2015

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Button Hover Effects

20 Button Hover Effects

CSS Button with 20 diffrent hover animation effects developed using css and html.

Author: Rosa · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: OCTOBER 27, 2016

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CSS Button with Angled Sides

CSS Button with Angled Sides

CSS Button with Angled Sides developed using only css and html.

Author: Peter Hrynkow · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 09, 2013

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CSS Buttons with animations

CSS Buttons with animations

CSS Buttons with different animations reactions

Author: Rémi Lacorne · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JULY 16, 2013

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Six Pure CSS Button Hover Animations

 Six Pure CSS Button Hover Animations

Six Pure CSS Button Hover Animations

Author: Christian · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JULY 22, 2016

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Very creative CSS Buttons | Depth Effect

Very creative CSS Buttons | Depth Effect

Very creative CSS Buttons | Depth Effect. Developed using css, html and javascript

Author: Praveen Bisht · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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Next & Prev CSS buttons

Next & Prev CSS buttons

Next & Prev CSS buttons.CSS buttons for next and previous button for sliders, or whatever.

Author: Andréas Lundgren · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: MARCH 04, 2013

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Simple CSS Button Hover Effect

Simple CSS Button Hover Effect

Simple CSS Button Hover Effect. Simple, but good looking :hover and :active transition for buttons and links styled as buttons.

Author: Andréas Lundgren · Made with: HTML, CSS and JavaScript · Created: JUNE 01, 2016

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CSS button transitions

CSS Button Animations

CSS Button Animations styles.Playing around with some CSS button transitions. Possible repo for future use. Learning experience for me dealing with browser compatibility.

Author: Alex Loomer · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: FEBRUARY 07, 2017

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Free Bootstrap CSS Buttons

 Free Bootstrap CSS Buttons

Bootstrap-free CSS Buttons.A pure CSS button style that you can put on anchor tags, buttons, inputs, & labels. Demo and download available.

Author: Tommy Hodgins · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 27, 2017

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Enlarge button effect on hover

Enlarge button effect on hover

Button zoom effect on hover. CSS Button enlarge effect using only css and html. Demo and download available.

Author: sasha · Made with: HTML, CSS · Created: JANUARY 27, 2017

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