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Floating Label Field
Forms & Validation

Floating Label Field

Text field whose placeholder label shrinks and floats to the top edge on focus or when a value is entered.

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32lines of CSS
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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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floating-label-field-15285.css
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284 {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  width: 220px;
  font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
}
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284 input {
  width: 100%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  padding: 1.15rem 0.8rem 0.45rem;
  font-size: 0.9rem;
  color: #e2e8f0;
  background: #0f172a;
  border: 1.5px solid #334155;
  border-radius: 8px;
  outline: none;
  transition: border-color 0.25s ease, box-shadow 0.25s ease;
}
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284 span {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0.85rem;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
  font-size: 0.9rem;
  color: #64748b;
  pointer-events: none;
  transition: top 0.2s ease, font-size 0.2s ease, color 0.2s ease;
}
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284:hover input { border-color: #64748b; }
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284 input:focus { border-color: #6366f1; box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px rgba(99,102,241,0.25); }
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284 input:focus + span,
.fx-v12-fm-float-15284 input:not(:placeholder-shown) + span { top: 0.75rem; font-size: 0.65rem; color: #a5b4fc; }
floating-label-field-15285.html
<label class="fx-v12-fm-float-15284">
  <input type="text" placeholder=" " />
  <span>Email address</span>
</label>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put floating-label-field-15285.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-v12-fm-float-15284">. 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 floating-label-field-15285

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 floating-label-field-15285

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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
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
Reflows

Animates font-size, top (and border-color, box-shadow, color). The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefer transform if you can.

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)
May shift layout

Animates font-size, top on 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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Shipping one commercially

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7 variations of Floating Label Field

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