Mesh Header Card
Content card topped by a four-point mesh gradient whose colour blobs drift slowly against each other behind a pill label.
- lines of CSS
- 56lines of CSS
- dependencies
- 0dependencies
- browser, for years
- Everybrowser, for years
- stops under reduced motion
- Guardedstops under reduced motion
Four radial stops drifting against each other, clipped to the header.
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.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 {
width: 226px;
border-radius: 0.8rem;
overflow: hidden;
background: #131826;
border: 1px solid #262f45;
color: #cbd5e1;
}
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 .m {
position: relative;
height: 84px;
background:
radial-gradient(60% 80% at 15% 20%, #f472b6 0%, transparent 60%),
radial-gradient(55% 70% at 85% 25%, #38bdf8 0%, transparent 60%),
radial-gradient(70% 90% at 70% 90%, #a78bfa 0%, transparent 60%),
radial-gradient(60% 70% at 20% 85%, #34d399 0%, transparent 60%),
#1e1b4b;
background-size: 180% 180%;
animation: fx-v13-card-mesh-15378-drift 9s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 .m span {
position: absolute;
top: 0.5rem;
left: 0.6rem;
font-size: 0.6rem;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: 0.12em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #0f172a;
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.85);
border-radius: 999px;
padding: 0.14rem 0.5rem;
}
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 .b { padding: 0.75rem 0.85rem 0.9rem; }
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 b { display: block; font-size: 0.85rem; color: #f1f5f9; margin-bottom: 0.3rem; }
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 p { margin: 0; font-size: 0.72rem; line-height: 1.5; color: #94a3b8; }
@keyframes fx-v13-card-mesh-15378-drift {
0% { background-position: 0% 50%, 100% 50%, 50% 100%, 0% 0%; }
50% { background-position: 100% 20%, 0% 80%, 20% 0%, 80% 100%; }
100% { background-position: 0% 50%, 100% 50%, 50% 100%, 0% 0%; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378,
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378::before,
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378::after,
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 *,
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 *::before,
.fx-v13-card-mesh-15378 *::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-card-mesh-15378">
<div class="m">
<span>New</span>
</div>
<div class="b">
<b>Gradient meshes</b>
<p>Four radial stops drifting against each other, clipped to the header.</p>
</div>
</div>What do I do with this?
- Put
mesh-header-card-15379.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-card-mesh-15378">. 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 mesh-header-card-15379What'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 mesh-header-card-15379
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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
- Repaints
Animates
background-position. 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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7 variations of Mesh Header Card
Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.