Slide Reveal
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<span class="label">Particle Burst</span>
</label>About Slide Reveal
Slide Reveal is a toggle switch built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills and transforms. Its stylesheet runs to 93 lines across 26 rules, declaring 28 distinct properties. It styles checked state explicitly, so the component responds to interaction rather than sitting still. The animation is driven by a keyframe sequence named particle-burst, 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
- Preference screens, where the control is switched more often than it is read, where a slide and reveal toggle switch fits the surrounding design
- A single prominent toggle switch rather than a row of them, since the particle-burst animation runs continuously and several at once compete with each other
- Palettes built around blue, white and gray, where this toggle switch can be dropped in without retheming
- Places where one control is meant to be memorable, since 93 lines of CSS is a real investment for a single element
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 particle-burst. Changing the animation-duration is usually the only edit needed to make it faster or calmer.
Accessibility
Built on a native <label> 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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Slide Reveal
<label class="particle-checkbox">
<input type="checkbox" />
<div class="particle-container">
<div class="core"></div>
<div class="particles">
<span class="particle p1">β</span>
<span class="particle p2">β</span>
<span class="particle p3">β</span>
<span class="particle p4">β</span>
<span class="particle p5">β</span>
<span class="particle p6">β</span>
</div>
<div class="check-icon">β</div>
</div>
<span class="label">Particle Burst</span>
</label>What is inside Slide Reveal
Slide Reveal is a CSS toggle switch built with a keyframe animation, gradient fills, transforms, defined in 93 lines across 26 selectors.
Techniques used
Animation defined: particle-burst
CSS properties in this component
align-itemsanimationanimation-delaybackgroundborderborder-colorborder-radiusbottomcolorcursordisplayfont-familyfont-sizefont-weightgapheightinputleftopacityoverflowpositionrighttoptransformtransitionuser-selectwidthz-indexAccessibility check2 to fix
- Built on a native <label> 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.