Icon Pill Steps
Vertical onboarding steps rendered as icon pills on a dotted rail, each nudging sideways on hover.
- 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-tl-cards-15268 {
position: relative;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 8px;
width: 200px;
padding-left: 4px;
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
color: #e2e8f0;
}
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268::before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
left: 19px;
top: 12px; bottom: 12px;
border-left: 2px dotted #475569;
}
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268 .st {
position: relative;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 0.6rem;
padding: 0.35rem 0.6rem 0.35rem 0.35rem;
border-radius: 999px;
background: #0f172a;
border: 1px solid #1e293b;
font-size: 0.78rem;
transition: transform 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, background 0.3s ease;
}
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268 .st i {
display: grid;
place-items: center;
width: 24px; height: 24px;
border-radius: 50%;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 0.7rem;
background: #1e293b;
color: #94a3b8;
}
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268 .st:first-child i { background: #f43f5e; color: #fff; }
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268 .st.on { border-color: #f43f5e; }
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268 .st.on i { background: #fff1f2; color: #f43f5e; box-shadow: 0 0 0 4px rgba(244,63,94,0.25); }
.fx-v12-tl-cards-15268 .st:hover { transform: translateX(6px); border-color: #fb7185; background: #1e1b2e; }<div class="fx-v12-tl-cards-15268">
<div class="st">
<i>✓</i>
<span>Account created</span>
</div>
<div class="st on">
<i>✎</i>
<span>Add profile</span>
</div>
<div class="st">
<i>★</i>
<span>Invite team</span>
</div>
</div>What do I do with this?
- Put
icon-pill-steps-15269.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-tl-cards-15268">. 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 icon-pill-steps-15269What'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 icon-pill-steps-15269
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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,border-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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Copying the code is free. Putting it in client work or a paid product is what Pro is for — the licence, not the access.
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- Unlimited bundle exports, in Vue, Svelte and Tailwind
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7 variations of Icon Pill Steps
Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.