Diagonal Scan Sweep
Hatched dark field crossed at an angle by a soft blue scanning bar that fades in at one edge and out at the other.
- lines of CSS
- 46lines of CSS
- dependencies
- 0dependencies
- browser, for years
- Everybrowser, for years
- stops under reduced motion
- Guardedstops under reduced motion
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.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392 {
position: relative;
width: 240px;
height: 140px;
border-radius: 0.75rem;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #0f172a;
background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(
-45deg,
rgba(148,163,184,0.10) 0 2px,
transparent 2px 10px
);
box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(148,163,184,0.2);
}
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392 span {
position: absolute;
top: -60%;
bottom: -60%;
left: -30%;
width: 60px;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, rgba(56,189,248,0.55), rgba(224,242,254,0.9), rgba(56,189,248,0.55), transparent);
filter: blur(3px);
transform: rotate(18deg);
animation: fx-v13-bg-scan-15392-pass 3.4s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) infinite;
}
@keyframes fx-v13-bg-scan-15392-pass {
0% { left: -30%; opacity: 0; }
12% { opacity: 1; }
70% { opacity: 1; }
85%, 100% { left: 105%; opacity: 0; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392,
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392::before,
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392::after,
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392 *,
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392 *::before,
.fx-v13-bg-scan-15392 *::after {
animation-duration: 1ms !important;
animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
animation-delay: 0ms !important;
transition-duration: 1ms !important;
transition-delay: 0ms !important;
}
}<div class="fx-v13-bg-scan-15392">
<span></span>
</div>What do I do with this?
- Put
diagonal-scan-sweep-15393.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-v13-bg-scan-15392">. 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 diagonal-scan-sweep-15393What'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 diagonal-scan-sweep-15393
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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
- Guarded
Ships a
prefers-reduced-motionblock, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion. - What it animates
- Reflows
Animates
left. The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefertransformif you can. - Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
- Under 3 flashes/s
Its brightest loop is about 0.3 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.
- Layout shift (CLS)
- May shift layout
Animates
lefton a box in flow, so content beside or after it can move. 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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7 variations of Diagonal Scan Sweep
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