How do I use Hologram Button in my project?

Copy whichever of HTML and CSS matches your setup and paste it in. There is no build step, no dependency and no framework requirement. The three formats produce the same component, so pick the one that fits and ignore the rest.

How do I change the animation speed?

Edit the animation-duration on the rule that references hologram-shift. A larger value slows it down, and removing the animation property stops it entirely while leaving the rest of the styling intact.

Does the animation respect reduced motion settings?

Not as written. Wrap the animation in a prefers-reduced-motion query if motion sensitivity matters for your audience, which takes three lines and is worth doing.

How do I change the colours?

Edit the colour stops inside the gradient declaration. Keeping the same number of stops preserves the transition, and changing their positions changes where the colours meet.

Can I use Hologram Button commercially?

Yes. The code is free to use in personal and commercial projects, with no attribution required and no licence to accept.

What makes Hologram Button different from a plain button?

It uses keyframe animation, transforms, gradients and shadows, where a default button uses none of them. That is the whole difference: the behaviour is the same and the presentation is not.

Hologram Button

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Background:

<button class="hologram-btn">
  <span class="hologram-text">HOLOGRAM</span>
</button>

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About Hologram Button

Hologram Button is a button built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, transforms, layered shadows, a blurred backdrop, CSS filters and pseudo elements. Its stylesheet runs to 57 lines across 6 rules, declaring 24 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 hologram-shift and hologram-rotate, 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

Sites with a strong established look, where a neutral control would sit awkwardly, where a themed and hologram button fits the surrounding design
A single prominent button rather than a row of them, since the hologram-shift animation runs continuously and several at once compete with each other
Palettes built around rainbow and silver, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
Places where one control is meant to be memorable, since 57 lines of CSS is a real investment for a single element
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, height, 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. The looping motion comes from hologram-shift and hologram-rotate. Changing the animation-duration is usually the only edit needed to make it faster or calmer. 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

Keyboard navigation

Supported

Screen reader

Friendly

ARIA

Native element semantics, no extra attributes needed

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

Chrome

76+

Firefox

103+

Safari

Edge

79+

Backdrop filter needs a -webkit- prefix on older Safari.

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Hologram Button

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Background:

<button class="hologram-btn">
  <span class="hologram-text">HOLOGRAM</span>
</button>

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What is inside Hologram Button

Hologram Button is a CSS button built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, a blurred backdrop, defined in 57 lines across 6 selectors.

CSS properties

Selectors

Lines of CSS

Formats

Techniques used

Keyframe animationTransformsGradientsShadowsFiltersBackdrop blurPseudo elementsHover state

Animations defined: hologram-shifthologram-rotate

CSS properties in this component

animationanimation-durationbackdrop-filterbackgroundbackground-positionbackground-sizeborderborder-radiusbox-shadowcolorcontentcursorfilterfont-weightheightleftoverflowpaddingpositiontext-shadowtoptransformwidthz-index

Accessibility 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.

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 and adapt it freely.