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ianlunn/hover

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TLDR

A collection of ready-made CSS hover effects you can drop into any web page, buttons, links, images enlarge, rotate, or animate when users move their mouse over them.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((Hover.css))
    What it does
      Hover animations
      Visual effects
      Interactive feedback
    How to use
      Copy single effect
      Include full library
      Add class names
    Effects included
      Icon animations
      Grow and rotate
      Transitions
    Tech stack
      CSS3
      Sass
      LESS
    Audience
      Web designers
      Front-end devs

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add smooth grow or rotate effects to buttons and links without writing CSS animations yourself.

USE CASE 2

Create polished interactive feedback on images and logos when users hover over them.

USE CASE 3

Include animated icons inside elements using pre-built icon effect classes.

USE CASE 4

Customize animation timing and class prefixes using the Sass or LESS versions before deploying.

Tech stack

CSS3SassLESS

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

Hover.css is a collection of ready-made visual effects that activate when a user moves their mouse over an element on a web page, a button, a link, an image, a logo, or any other element. The problem it solves is that creating smooth, polished hover animations from scratch with CSS requires knowing specific CSS3 properties (transitions, transforms, animations, pseudo-elements) and getting the details right; this library provides them pre-built so you can apply them by adding a class name. There are two main ways to use it. The simpler approach is to copy only the specific effect you want from the stylesheet into your own CSS file, keeping your page lightweight. The broader approach is to include the entire Hover.css stylesheet and then apply effects across many elements just by adding the right class, for example, adding the class that produces a "grow" effect makes the element visually enlarge on hover. Icon effects are also included: you can attach animated icons inside elements using a special marker class. The library is available in plain CSS, Sass, and LESS formats. Sass and LESS are preprocessor languages that extend CSS with variables and mixins; having those versions lets developers customize things like the class name prefix or animation timing before generating the final CSS. A web designer or front-end developer would use this when they want to add polished interactive effects to a site quickly without writing the CSS transitions manually. Browser support requires Internet Explorer 9 or later for transforms and Internet Explorer 10 or later for animations.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to add a grow effect to a button using Hover.css, just the class name I need to add.
Prompt 2
I want to use Hover.css but only include the effects I actually use. How do I copy just one effect into my own CSS file?
Prompt 3
How do I customize the animation speed of Hover.css effects using the Sass version?
Prompt 4
Can I use Hover.css to add animated icons inside buttons? Show me the class structure.
Prompt 5
What's the simplest way to add Hover.css to my HTML page, do I just link a stylesheet?
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