How do I use Time Warp Button in my project?

Copy whichever of HTML, CSS and Tailwind 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 temporal-flux. 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 Time Warp 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 Time Warp Button different from a plain button?

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

Time Warp Button

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Background:

<button class="time-warp-btn">
  <div class="clock-rings">
    <div class="ring seconds-ring">
      <div class="marker m1"></div>
      <div class="marker m2"></div>
      <div class="marker m3"></div>
      <div class="marker m4"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="ring minutes-ring">
      <div class="marker m5"></div>
      <div class="marker m6"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="ring hours-ring">
      <div class="marker m7"></div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="time-hands">
    <div class="hand hour-hand"></div>
    <div class="hand minute-hand"></div>
    <div class="hand second-hand"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="temporal-distortion">
    <div class="distortion d1"></div>
    <div class="distortion d2"></div>
    <div class="distortion d3"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="clock-center">
    <span class="time-icon">⏰</span>
  </div>
  <div class="time-particles">
    <div class="time-particle tp1">⏳</div>
    <div class="time-particle tp2">⌛</div>
    <div class="time-particle tp3">⏳</div>
  </div>
</button>

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About Time Warp Button

Time Warp Button is a button built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, transforms, layered shadows and CSS filters. Its stylesheet runs to 242 lines across 34 rules, declaring 29 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 temporal-flux, time-tick, hour-rotate, minute-rotate, second-rotate, distortion-wave, time-pulse, particle-orbit and particle-float, 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, CSS and Tailwind 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 time and warp button fits the surrounding design
A single prominent button rather than a row of them, since the temporal-flux animation runs continuously and several at once compete with each other
Palettes built around gold, bronze and amber, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
Places where one control is meant to be memorable, since 242 lines of CSS is a real investment for a single element
Cases where you want the finished effect rather than a base to build on, given how much the CSS is doing

How it works

The base rule sets the shape with border-radius, display, height and position. The fill is a gradient rather than a flat colour, so it is a single background declaration with no image to load. 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 temporal-flux, time-tick, hour-rotate, minute-rotate, second-rotate, distortion-wave, time-pulse, particle-orbit and particle-float. Changing the animation-duration is usually the only edit needed to make it faster or calmer.

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

26+

Firefox

16+

Safari

Edge

12+

Everything this component uses has been supported across browsers for years, so no fallback is needed.

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Time Warp Button

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Background:

<button class="time-warp-btn">
  <div class="clock-rings">
    <div class="ring seconds-ring">
      <div class="marker m1"></div>
      <div class="marker m2"></div>
      <div class="marker m3"></div>
      <div class="marker m4"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="ring minutes-ring">
      <div class="marker m5"></div>
      <div class="marker m6"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="ring hours-ring">
      <div class="marker m7"></div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="time-hands">
    <div class="hand hour-hand"></div>
    <div class="hand minute-hand"></div>
    <div class="hand second-hand"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="temporal-distortion">
    <div class="distortion d1"></div>
    <div class="distortion d2"></div>
    <div class="distortion d3"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="clock-center">
    <span class="time-icon">⏰</span>
  </div>
  <div class="time-particles">
    <div class="time-particle tp1">⏳</div>
    <div class="time-particle tp2">⌛</div>
    <div class="time-particle tp3">⏳</div>
  </div>
</button>

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What is inside Time Warp Button

Time Warp Button is a CSS button built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, transforms, defined in 242 lines across 34 selectors.

CSS properties

Selectors

242

Lines of CSS

Formats

Techniques used

Keyframe animationTransitionsTransformsGradientsShadowsFiltersHover stateFlexbox

Animations defined: temporal-fluxtime-tickhour-rotateminute-rotatesecond-rotatedistortion-wavetime-pulseparticle-orbitparticle-float

CSS properties in this component

align-itemsanimationanimation-delayanimation-durationbackgroundborderborder-colorborder-radiusbottombox-shadowcolorcursordisplayfilterfont-sizeheightjustify-contentleftmargin-leftopacityoverflowpositionrighttoptransformtransform-origintransitionwidthz-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.

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.