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Ocean Lightning Strike
Glow & Neon

Ocean Lightning Strike

Jagged bolt cut by clip-path and lit by stacked drop-shadows, driven on stepped keyframes so the discharge snaps between states the way a real strike does.

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lines of CSS
55lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
Backdrop
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Vue, Svelte, styled-components and Tailwind exports are part of Pro. HTML, CSS and React are free forever.

ocean-lightning-strike-14223.css
.fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222 {
  position: relative;
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  width: 172px;
  height: 150px;
  overflow: hidden;
  border-radius: 0.55rem;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, #0a1020, #05070f);
}
.fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222 .flash {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  background: radial-gradient(60% 55% at 50% 40%, rgba(14,165,233, 0.55), transparent 70%);
  opacity: 0;
  animation: fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222-flash 3.4s steps(1) infinite;
}
@keyframes fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222-flash {
  0%, 5%   { opacity: 0; }
  6%       { opacity: 1; }
  8%       { opacity: 0.15; }
  10%      { opacity: 0.9; }
  14%,100% { opacity: 0; }
}
.fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222 .bolt {
  position: relative;
  width: 46px;
  height: 96px;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, #0ea5e9, #6366f1);
  clip-path: polygon(56% 0, 20% 52%, 46% 52%, 30% 100%, 82% 42%, 52% 42%, 78% 0);
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 10px #0ea5e9) drop-shadow(0 0 24px rgba(99,102,241, 0.7));
  animation: fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222-strike 3.4s steps(1) infinite;
}
@keyframes fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222-strike {
  0%, 5%   { opacity: 0.12; }
  6%       { opacity: 1; }
  8%       { opacity: 0.3; }
  10%      { opacity: 1; }
  14%,100% { opacity: 0.12; }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222,
  .fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222::before,
  .fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222::after,
  .fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222 *,
  .fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222 *::before,
  .fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
ocean-lightning-strike-14223.html
<div class="fx-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222">
  <i class="flash"></i>
  <i class="bolt"></i>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put ocean-lightning-strike-14223.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-v10-glow-lightning-ocean-14222">. 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 ocean-lightning-strike-14223

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 ocean-lightning-strike-14223

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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)
Under 3 flashes/s

Its brightest loop is about 0.6 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.

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 Ocean Lightning Strike

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