Wave Water Button
<button class="wave-btn">
<span class="wave-emoji">๐</span>
<span class="wave-text">FLOW</span>
<div class="wave-animation"></div>
</button>About Wave Water Button
Wave Water Button is a button built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, transforms and layered shadows. Its stylesheet runs to 58 lines across 6 rules, declaring 23 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 wave-rock and wave-flow, 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
- Wellness, food and lifestyle sites, where softness suits the subject, where a wave and water button fits the surrounding design
- A single prominent button rather than a row of them, since the wave-rock animation runs continuously and several at once compete with each other
- Palettes built around blue, cyan and white, where this button can be dropped in without retheming
- Places where one control is meant to be memorable, since 58 lines of CSS is a real investment for a single element
How it works
The base rule sets the shape with display, height, position and width. 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 wave-rock and wave-flow. 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
Complex clip-path shapes were unreliable before Safari 14.
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Frequently asked questions
Wave Water Button
<button class="wave-btn">
<span class="wave-emoji">๐</span>
<span class="wave-text">FLOW</span>
<div class="wave-animation"></div>
</button>What is inside Wave Water Button
Wave Water Button is a CSS button built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, transforms, defined in 58 lines across 6 selectors.
Techniques used
Animations defined: wave-rockwave-flow
CSS properties in this component
align-itemsanimationbackgroundborderbottombox-shadowclip-pathcolorcursordisplayflex-directionfont-familyfont-sizefont-weightgapheightjustify-contentleftoverflowpositiontransformtransitionwidthAccessibility 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
- Complex clip-path shapes were unreliable before Safari 14.
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.