Triangle Arrow Button
<button class="triangle-btn">
<span class="triangle-icon">▶</span>
<span class="triangle-text">PLAY</span>
</button>About Triangle Arrow Button
Triangle Arrow Button is a button built with transforms, layered shadows, CSS filters and pseudo elements. Its stylesheet runs to 31 lines across 4 rules, declaring 20 distinct properties. It styles hover and active states 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
- Editorial layouts and portfolios, where the shape is doing deliberate work, where a triangle and arrow 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 green, emerald and white, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
How it works
The base rule sets the shape with height, position and width. 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.
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
Everything this component uses has been supported across browsers for years, so no fallback is needed.
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Frequently asked questions
Triangle Arrow Button
<button class="triangle-btn">
<span class="triangle-icon">▶</span>
<span class="triangle-text">PLAY</span>
</button>What is inside Triangle Arrow Button
Triangle Arrow Button is a CSS button built with transforms, layered shadows, defined in 31 lines across 4 selectors.
Techniques used
CSS properties in this component
border-bottomborder-leftborder-left-colorborder-topcolorcontentcursorfilterfont-familyfont-sizefont-weightheightleftpointer-eventspositiontext-shadowtoptransformtransitionwidthAccessibility 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.
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.