Glitch Effect Button
<button class="glitch-btn" data-text="GLITCH">
<span>GLITCH</span>
</button>About Glitch Effect Button
Glitch Effect Button is a button built with a keyframe animation, transforms and pseudo elements. Its stylesheet runs to 51 lines across 9 rules, declaring 25 distinct properties. It styles hover state explicitly, so the component responds to interaction rather than sitting still. The animation is driven by keyframe sequences named glitch-1 and glitch-2, which you can retime or remove without touching the rest of the styling. Every format shown on this page is the same component, so you can take HTML and CSS depending on how your project is set up. Nothing is minified and nothing depends on a framework.
When to use
- Landing pages where one moving element earns attention rather than competing for it, where a glitch and digital button fits the surrounding design
- A single prominent button rather than a row of them, since the glitch-1 animation runs continuously and several at once compete with each other
- Palettes built around red, cyan and white, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
- Places where one control is meant to be memorable, since 51 lines of CSS is a real investment for a single element
How it works
The base rule sets the shape with border-radius, display, height and padding. 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 looping motion comes from glitch-1 and glitch-2. Changing the animation-duration is usually the only edit needed to make it faster or calmer.
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. Animates without a prefers-reduced-motion guard. Wrap the animation in that query if motion sensitivity matters to your audience. Those are 2 things to fix before this ships in front of users.
Browser support
Everything this component uses has been supported across browsers for years, so no fallback is needed.
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Frequently asked questions
Glitch Effect Button
<button class="glitch-btn" data-text="GLITCH">
<span>GLITCH</span>
</button>What is inside Glitch Effect Button
Glitch Effect Button is a CSS button built with a keyframe animation, transforms, defined in 51 lines across 9 selectors.
Techniques used
Animations defined: glitch-1glitch-2
CSS properties in this component
align-itemsanimationanimation-durationbackgroundborderborder-radiuscolorcontentcursordisplayfont-familyfont-sizefont-weightheightjustify-contentleftoverflowpaddingpositiontext-transformtoptransformtransitionwidthz-indexAccessibility check2 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.
- Animates without a prefers-reduced-motion guard. Wrap the animation in that query if motion sensitivity matters to your audience.
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 and adapt it freely.