Glass Morphism Button
<button class="glass-morphism">Glass Effect</button>About Glass Morphism Button
Glass Morphism Button is a button built with gradient fills, transforms, layered shadows, a blurred backdrop and pseudo elements. Its stylesheet runs to 30 lines across 3 rules, declaring 19 distinct properties. It styles hover state explicitly, so the component responds to interaction rather than sitting still. Every format shown on this page is the same component, so you can take HTML, CSS and Tailwind depending on how your project is set up. Nothing is minified and nothing depends on a framework.
When to use
- Dense interfaces and admin panels, where dozens of controls share a screen, where a glass and morphism button fits the surrounding design
- Repeated use across a page, since there is no animation to become tiring when several appear together
- Palettes built around white and transparent, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
- Layouts with imagery or colour behind the control, since the backdrop blur needs something to blur
How it works
The base rule sets the shape with border-radius, padding and position. The fill is a gradient rather than a flat colour, so it is a single background declaration with no image to load. A pseudo element carries part of the effect, which keeps the markup to one element while giving the CSS a second surface to animate. Movement is done with transforms rather than by changing position or size, which is what keeps it smooth: transforms are composited and do not force the browser to lay the page out again. State changes are eased with a transition, so hovering does not snap. The backdrop filter blurs whatever sits behind the element, which means the effect depends on the page underneath rather than on the component alone.
Accessibility
Built on a native <button> element, so keyboard focus and screen reader semantics work without extra attributes. No focus style is defined. Add one before shipping, or keyboard users lose track of position. That is one thing to fix before this ships in front of users.
Browser support
Backdrop filter needs a -webkit- prefix on older Safari.
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Frequently asked questions
Glass Morphism Button
<button class="glass-morphism">Glass Effect</button>What is inside Glass Morphism Button
Glass Morphism Button is a CSS button built with gradient fills, a blurred backdrop, transforms, defined in 30 lines across 3 selectors.
Techniques used
CSS properties in this component
-webkit-backdrop-filterbackdrop-filterbackgroundborderborder-radiusbottombox-shadowcolorcontentcursorfont-weightleftpaddingpositionrighttoptransformtransitionz-indexAccessibility check1 to fix
- Built on a native <button> element, so keyboard focus and screen reader semantics work without extra attributes.
- No focus style is defined. Add one before shipping, or keyboard users lose track of position.
Browser support notes
- Backdrop filter needs a -webkit- prefix on older Safari.
These notes are generated by reading this component's own source, so they describe what it actually does rather than what a template says. Copy the code above in HTML, CSS, Tailwind and adapt it freely.