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Drop Zone Overlay
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Drop Zone Overlay

Attachment list that blurs behind a dashed upload veil when files are dragged over it, the veil scaling up around a bobbing arrow and its size limits.

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lines of CSS
67lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
Backdrop
Attachments · 3proposal.pdf240 KBhero-shot.png1.8 MBassets.zip12 MB
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drop-zone-overlay-15725.css
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 {
  position: relative;
  width: 238px;
  height: 114px;
  padding: 10px;
  background: #111a2c;
  border: 1px solid #253049;
  border-radius: 0.7rem;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls { transition: filter 0.3s ease, opacity 0.3s ease; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls b { display: block; margin-bottom: 0.4rem; font-size: 0.64rem; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #64748b; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls a {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.45rem;
  padding: 0.24rem 0.3rem;
  font-size: 0.68rem;
  color: #cbd5e1;
  border-radius: 0.3rem;
}
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls a:nth-child(even) { background: #16203a; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls i { flex: none; width: 14px; height: 16px; border-radius: 2px; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls .p { background: #ef4444; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls .i { background: #38bdf8; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls .z { background: #fbbf24; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .ls em { margin-left: auto; font-style: normal; font-size: 0.58rem; color: #64748b; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .dz {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 6px;
  display: grid;
  place-content: center;
  justify-items: center;
  gap: 2px;
  text-align: center;
  color: #7dd3fc;
  background: rgba(9,16,31,0.88);
  border: 2px dashed #38bdf8;
  border-radius: 0.55rem;
  opacity: 0;
  transform: scale(0.96);
  transition: opacity 0.25s ease, transform 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.3, 0.64, 1);
}
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .dz svg { animation: fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724-bob 1.5s ease-in-out infinite; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .dz b { margin-top: 3px; font-size: 0.74rem; color: #e0f2fe; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 .dz small { font-size: 0.6rem; color: #64748b; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724:hover .ls { filter: blur(1.5px); opacity: 0.5; }
.fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724:hover .dz { opacity: 1; transform: scale(1); }
@keyframes fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724-bob {
  0%, 100% { transform: translateY(0); }
  50%      { transform: translateY(-4px); }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724,
  .fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724::before,
  .fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724::after,
  .fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 *,
  .fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 *::before,
  .fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
drop-zone-overlay-15725.html
<div class="fx-v14-mo-dropzone-15724">
  <div class="ls">
    <b>Attachments · 3</b>
    <a><i class="p"></i>proposal.pdf<em>240 KB</em></a>
    <a><i class="i"></i>hero-shot.png<em>1.8 MB</em></a>
    <a><i class="z"></i>assets.zip<em>12 MB</em></a>
  </div>
  <div class="dz">
    <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="20" height="20" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round">
      <path d="M12 16V4"></path>
      <path d="M7 9l5-5 5 5"></path>
      <path d="M4 16v3a1 1 0 001 1h14a1 1 0 001-1v-3"></path>
    </svg>
    <b>Drop files to upload</b>
    <small>PNG, PDF up to 10 MB</small>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put drop-zone-overlay-15725.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-mo-dropzone-15724">. 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
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

npx hoverlab add drop-zone-overlay-15725

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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
Compositor only

Only transform, opacity or filter: the GPU can run it without re-laying-out or repainting the page.

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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Shipping one commercially

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7 variations of Drop Zone Overlay

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.