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Ocean Nested Steps
Timelines & Steps

Ocean Nested Steps

Two-level plan where sub-tasks hang off a rail indented under their parent, each connected by a stub, so progress inside a phase is visible without expanding it.

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lines of CSS
61lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
no motion at all
Noneno motion at all
Backdrop
Plan
Scope agreedBudget signed
Build
SchemaAPI layerClient
Ship
Open a live copy in

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ocean-nested-steps-14823.css
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 {
  width: 226px;
  padding: 0.6rem 0.7rem;
  border-radius: 0.55rem;
  background: #0b1120;
  border: 1px solid #1e293b;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .st {
  position: relative;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.55rem;
  padding: 0.28rem 0;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .st i {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;
  flex: none;
  width: 13px;
  height: 13px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #0b1120;
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #334155;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .st.dn i {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0ea5e9, #6366f1);
  box-shadow: none;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .st.now i {
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0ea5e9, 0 0 0 3px rgba(14,165,233, 0.22);
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .st b { font-size: 0.78rem; font-weight: 650; color: #e2e8f0; }
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .st:not(.dn) b { color: #94a3b8; }
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub {
  display: grid;
  gap: 0.16rem;
  margin: 0.1rem 0 0.1rem 6px;
  padding: 0.2rem 0 0.2rem 0.85rem;
  border-left: 2px solid #1e293b;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub span {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 0.71rem;
  color: #64748b;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub span::before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  left: -0.98rem;
  top: 50%;
  width: 7px;
  height: 1.5px;
  background: #1e293b;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub .dn { color: #94a3b8; }
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub .dn::before { background: #6366f1; }
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub .ac {
  color: #0ea5e9;
  font-weight: 600;
}
.fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822 .sub .ac::before { background: #0ea5e9; }
ocean-nested-steps-14823.html
<div class="fx-v10-timeline-nested-ocean-14822">
  <div class="st dn">
    <i></i>
    <b>Plan</b>
  </div>
  <div class="sub">
    <span class="dn">Scope agreed</span>
    <span class="dn">Budget signed</span>
  </div>
  <div class="st now">
    <i></i>
    <b>Build</b>
  </div>
  <div class="sub">
    <span class="dn">Schema</span>
    <span class="ac">API layer</span>
    <span>Client</span>
  </div>
  <div class="st">
    <i></i>
    <b>Ship</b>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put ocean-nested-steps-14823.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-timeline-nested-ocean-14822">. 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.
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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

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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
Nothing animates

No animation or transition, so there is nothing to switch off.

What it animates
Nothing

No property is animated.

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.

  • A commercial licence for everything in the catalog
  • Unlimited bundle exports, in Vue, Svelte and Tailwind
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7 variations of Ocean Nested Steps

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