Typewriter Effect Button
<button class="typewriter-btn">
<span class="typewriter-text"></span>
<span class="cursor">|</span>
</button>About Typewriter Effect Button
Typewriter Effect Button is a button built with a keyframe animation and pseudo elements. Its stylesheet runs to 37 lines across 15 rules, declaring 13 distinct properties. The animation is driven by keyframe sequences named typewriter and blink, 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 typewriter and text button fits the surrounding design
- A single prominent button rather than a row of them, since the typewriter animation runs continuously and several at once compete with each other
- Palettes built around dark and green, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
How it works
The base rule sets the shape with border-radius, padding and position. A pseudo element carries part of the effect, which keeps the markup to one element while giving the CSS a second surface to animate. The looping motion comes from typewriter and blink. 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
Typewriter Effect Button
<button class="typewriter-btn">
<span class="typewriter-text"></span>
<span class="cursor">|</span>
</button>What is inside Typewriter Effect Button
Typewriter Effect Button is a CSS button built with a keyframe animation, defined in 37 lines across 15 selectors.
Techniques used
Animations defined: typewriterblink
CSS properties in this component
animationbackgroundborderborder-radiuscolorcontentcursorfont-familyfont-weightmin-widthopacitypaddingpositionAccessibility 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.