Browser Folder Tabs
Trapezoid browser-style tabs where the checked radio tab merges seamlessly into the indigo content pane below.
- lines of CSS
- 43lines of CSS
- dependencies
- 0dependencies
- browser, for years
- Everybrowser, for years
- motion only on interaction
- Hovermotion only on interaction
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.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 {
position: relative;
display: flex;
align-items: flex-end;
width: 240px;
height: 120px;
padding: 0 0 78px 8px;
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
}
.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 label {
position: relative;
margin-right: -10px;
cursor: pointer;
}
.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 input { position: absolute; opacity: 0; width: 0; height: 0; }
.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 span {
display: block;
padding: 0.4rem 1rem 0.45rem;
font-size: 0.7rem;
color: #94a3b8;
background: #1e293b;
clip-path: polygon(10px 0, calc(100% - 10px) 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%);
transition: background 0.2s ease, color 0.2s ease, transform 0.2s ease;
}
.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 label:hover span { color: #e2e8f0; transform: translateY(-2px); }
.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 input:checked + span {
color: #fff;
background: #6366f1;
z-index: 2;
position: relative;
transform: none;
}
.fx-v12-at-folder-15188 .pane {
position: absolute;
left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;
height: 78px;
background: #6366f1;
border-radius: 0.5rem;
background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(#818cf8 0 6px, transparent 6px 14px);
background-size: 60% 100%;
background-position: 14px 12px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}<div class="fx-v12-at-folder-15188">
<label>
<input type="radio" name="fx-v12-at-folder-15188" checked />
<span>index.html</span>
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="fx-v12-at-folder-15188" />
<span>styles.css</span>
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="fx-v12-at-folder-15188" />
<span>app.js</span>
</label>
<div class="pane"></div>
</div>What do I do with this?
- Put
browser-folder-tabs-15189.cssanywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that isapp/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a<link>in your HTML. - Then put the class on the element you want it on:
<button class="fx-v12-at-folder-15188">. 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.
npx hoverlab add browser-folder-tabs-15189What's included
- The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
- No runtime dependencies
Works with
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Tailwind
- styled-components
- Plain CSS
npx hoverlab add browser-folder-tabs-15189
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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.
Motion safety
Static estimate, read from the CSS
- Reduced motion
- Brief motion, no guard
Animates briefly or on interaction. Only looping motion gets a guard in this catalog; copy the one from the Insights tab if this ships on a critical path.
- What it animates
- Repaints
Animates
background,color. No reflow, but the browser repaints every frame, which is fine for one element and costly across many. - Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
- No flashing found
No repeating change in opacity, colour or brightness large enough to count as a flash.
- 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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Browse Accordions & TabsShipping one commercially
Copying the code is free. Putting it in client work or a paid product is what Pro is for — the licence, not the access.
- A commercial licence for everything in the catalog
- Unlimited bundle exports, in Vue, Svelte and Tailwind
- One payment — no subscription, nothing to renew
7 variations of Browser Folder Tabs
Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.