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Autosave Draft Field
Forms & Validation

Autosave Draft Field

Draft editor with a blinking caret and a green saved stamp in its header that swaps for a spinning saving indicator the moment the field is touched.

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lines of CSS
93lines of CSS
dependencies
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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
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Release notesSaved · 12s agoSaving…
Fixed the flicker on the pricing table and shortened the hover delay on nav items.
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autosave-draft-field-15837.css
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 {
  width: 248px;
  color: #cbd5e1;
}
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .hd {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
  margin-bottom: 0.3rem;
  font-size: 0.62rem;
  color: #94a3b8;
}
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .st { position: relative; display: block; height: 12px; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .st em {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.28rem;
  font-style: normal;
  font-size: 0.56rem;
  white-space: nowrap;
  transition: opacity 0.2s ease;
}
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .st .b { position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; opacity: 0; color: #7dd3fc; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .st .a { color: #6ee7b7; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .dt { width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: #34d399; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .sp {
  width: 8px;
  height: 8px;
  border: 1.5px solid rgba(125,211,252,0.3);
  border-top-color: #7dd3fc;
  border-radius: 50%;
  animation: fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836-spin 0.7s linear infinite;
}
@keyframes fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836-spin { from { transform: rotate(0deg); } to { transform: rotate(360deg); } }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .ta {
  position: relative;
  height: 66px;
  padding: 0.4rem 0.5rem;
  font-size: 0.66rem;
  line-height: 1.45;
  color: #cbd5e1;
  background: #0d1424;
  border: 1px solid #29344d;
  border-radius: 0.4rem;
  overflow: hidden;
  transition: border-color 0.2s ease, box-shadow 0.2s ease;
}
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .cr {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 1.5px;
  height: 11px;
  margin-left: 1px;
  vertical-align: -2px;
  background: #7dd3fc;
  animation: fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836-blink 1.1s steps(1, end) infinite;
}
@keyframes fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836-blink { 0% { opacity: 0; } 50% { opacity: 1; } 100% { opacity: 1; } }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836:hover .ta { border-color: #38bdf8; box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px rgba(56,189,248,0.14); }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836:hover .st .a { opacity: 0; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836:hover .st .b { opacity: 1; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .ft {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
  margin-top: 0.35rem;
}
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .ft em { font-style: normal; font-size: 0.55rem; color: #64748b; }
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .pb {
  padding: 0.2rem 0.55rem;
  font-size: 0.6rem;
  font-weight: 600;
  color: #082f49;
  background: #38bdf8;
  border-radius: 0.3rem;
  cursor: pointer;
  transition: background 0.18s ease;
}
.fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 .pb:hover { background: #7dd3fc; }

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836,
  .fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836::before,
  .fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836::after,
  .fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 *,
  .fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 *::before,
  .fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
autosave-draft-field-15837.html
<div class="fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836">
  <div class="hd">
    <span>Release notes</span>
    <span class="st">
      <em class="a"><u class="dt"></u>Saved · 12s ago</em>
      <em class="b"><u class="sp"></u>Saving…</em>
    </span>
  </div>
  <div class="ta">Fixed the flicker on the pricing table and shortened the hover delay on nav items.<i class="cr"></i></div>
  <div class="ft">
    <em>Autosaves every 5 seconds</em>
    <span class="pb">Publish</span>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put autosave-draft-field-15837.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-v14-fm-autosave-15836">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
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What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
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  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Guarded

Ships a prefers-reduced-motion block, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion.

What it animates
Repaints

Animates background, border-color, box-shadow. No reflow, but the browser repaints every frame, which is fine for one element and costly across many.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
Under 3 flashes/s

Its brightest loop is about 0.9 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.

Layout shift (CLS)
No shift expected

Nothing it animates moves or resizes the box in flow. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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