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ruler-marker-timeline-15267
Ruler Marker Timeline
Timelines & Steps

Ruler Marker Timeline

Horizontal tick ruler with month labels and a flagged marker that slides forward on hover.

Timelines & Stepsrulerticksmarkertimeline
lines of CSS
55lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
Backdrop
Q3
JanAprJulOct
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ruler-marker-timeline-15267.css
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266 {
  position: relative;
  width: 240px;
  height: 70px;
  font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
  color: #e2e8f0;
}
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266 .ticks {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0; right: 0; top: 24px;
  height: 18px;
  border-top: 2px solid #475569;
  background:
    repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, #475569 0 1px, transparent 1px 12px) 0 0 / 100% 8px no-repeat,
    repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, #94a3b8 0 2px, transparent 2px 60px) 0 0 / 100% 18px no-repeat;
}
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266 .mark {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 55%;
  width: 2px;
  height: 46px;
  background: #f59e0b;
  transition: left 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266 .mark span {
  position: absolute;
  top: -2px;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
  padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
  font-size: 0.65rem;
  font-weight: 700;
  color: #1c1917;
  background: #f59e0b;
  border-radius: 4px;
}
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266 .mark::after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  bottom: -5px; left: -4px;
  width: 10px; height: 10px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #f59e0b;
  box-shadow: 0 0 10px #f59e0b;
}
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266:hover .mark { left: 82%; }
.fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266 .yrs {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  font-size: 0.65rem;
  color: #64748b;
}
ruler-marker-timeline-15267.html
<div class="fx-v12-tl-ruler-15266">
  <div class="ticks"></div>
  <div class="mark">
    <span>Q3</span>
  </div>
  <div class="yrs">
    <span>Jan</span>
    <span>Apr</span>
    <span>Jul</span>
    <span>Oct</span>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put ruler-marker-timeline-15267.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-v12-tl-ruler-15266">. 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 ruler-marker-timeline-15267

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 ruler-marker-timeline-15267

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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
Reflows

Animates left. The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefer transform if you can.

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)
May shift layout

Animates left on a box in flow, so content beside or after it can move. 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
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7 variations of Ruler Marker Timeline

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