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Underline Reveal Link
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Underline Reveal Link

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A link whose underline wipes in from left to right on hover and wipes out the same way on leave.

Inputs & Hover
lines of CSS
25lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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link-underline.css
.fx-link-underline {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 1.05rem;
  font-weight: 600;
  color: #f59e0b;
  text-decoration: none;
  cursor: pointer;
  padding-bottom: 4px;
}
.fx-link-underline::after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 2px;
  background: #f59e0b;
  transform: scaleX(0);
  transform-origin: right;
  transition: transform 0.4s ease;
}
.fx-link-underline:hover::after {
  transform: scaleX(1);
  transform-origin: left;
}
link-underline.html
<a class="fx-link-underline">Read the docs →</a>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put link-underline.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-link-underline">. 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 link-underline

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 link-underline

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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
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

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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7 variations of Underline Reveal Link

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