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Rate Limit Alert
Alerts & Toasts

Rate Limit Alert

Throttling notice showing the allowance as ten discrete tokens rather than a bar, each pip flashing bright as it drops back into the bucket one at a time.

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lines of CSS
57lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
Backdrop
Rate limit reachedrefilling

The bucket takes back one request every 6 seconds.

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rate-limit-alert-15733.css
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 {
  width: 244px;
  padding: 0.7rem 0.8rem 0.75rem;
  background: #131320;
  border: 1px solid #3f3a63;
  border-radius: 0.55rem;
  color: #ddd6fe;
}
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .h { display: flex; align-items: baseline; justify-content: space-between; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 b { font-size: 0.79rem; color: #e9d5ff; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 em {
  font-style: normal;
  font-size: 0.62rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #818cf8;
}
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk { display: flex; gap: 4px; margin: 0.55rem 0 0.5rem; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i {
  flex: 1;
  height: 14px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  background: #241f3d;
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(129,140,248,0.22);
  animation: fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732-refill 12s linear infinite;
}
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(1)  { animation-delay: 0s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(2)  { animation-delay: 0.5s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(3)  { animation-delay: 1s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(4)  { animation-delay: 1.5s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(5)  { animation-delay: 2s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(6)  { animation-delay: 2.5s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(7)  { animation-delay: 3s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(8)  { animation-delay: 3.5s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(9)  { animation-delay: 4s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 .bk i:nth-child(10) { animation-delay: 4.5s; }
.fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 p { margin: 0; font-size: 0.68rem; color: #8b87b8; }
@keyframes fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732-refill {
  0%, 4%    { background: #241f3d; box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(129,140,248,0.22); }
  9%        { background: #c7d2fe; box-shadow: 0 0 12px rgba(165,180,252,0.85); }
  14%, 100% { background: #6366f1; box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(165,180,252,0.5); }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732,
  .fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732::before,
  .fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732::after,
  .fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 *,
  .fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 *::before,
  .fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
rate-limit-alert-15733.html
<div class="fx-v14-al-ratelimit-15732">
  <div class="h">
    <b>Rate limit reached</b>
    <em>refilling</em>
  </div>
  <div class="bk">
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
    <i></i>
  </div>
  <p>The bucket takes back one request every 6 seconds.</p>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put rate-limit-alert-15733.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-v14-al-ratelimit-15732">. 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

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  • Plain CSS

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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
Repaints

Animates background, box-shadow. No reflow, but the browser repaints every frame, which is fine for one element and costly across many.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
Under 3 flashes/s

Its brightest loop is about 0.1 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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