Torn Paper Edge
An amber receipt card whose bottom edge is clipped into a ragged torn-paper polygon that stretches on hover.
- lines of CSS
- 16lines of CSS
- dependencies
- 0dependencies
- browser, for years
- Everybrowser, for years
- motion only on interaction
- Hovermotion only on interaction
Vue, Svelte, styled-components and Tailwind exports are part of Pro. HTML, CSS and React are free forever.
.fx-v12-mk-torn-15238 {
width: 200px;
height: 120px;
padding: 0.9rem 1rem 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 0.4rem;
color: #451a03;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #fde68a, #fbbf24);
clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 84%, 94% 92%, 88% 82%, 81% 94%, 74% 84%, 67% 96%, 60% 85%, 52% 95%, 45% 83%, 38% 94%, 31% 84%, 24% 96%, 17% 85%, 10% 93%, 4% 84%, 0 92%);
transition: transform 0.35s ease, clip-path 0.35s ease;
}
.fx-v12-mk-torn-15238 b { font-size: 0.7rem; letter-spacing: 0.3em; }
.fx-v12-mk-torn-15238 span { font-size: 0.85rem; font-family: ui-monospace, monospace; }
.fx-v12-mk-torn-15238:hover { transform: rotate(-2deg); clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 88%, 94% 96%, 88% 86%, 81% 98%, 74% 88%, 67% 100%, 60% 89%, 52% 99%, 45% 87%, 38% 98%, 31% 88%, 24% 100%, 17% 89%, 10% 97%, 4% 88%, 0 96%); }<div class="fx-v12-mk-torn-15238">
<b>RECEIPT</b>
<span>Total $42.00</span>
</div>What do I do with this?
- Put
torn-paper-edge-15239.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-v12-mk-torn-15238">. 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 torn-paper-edge-15239What'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 torn-paper-edge-15239
Or over MCP, from your editor's agent — no account needed.
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
- 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
- Repaints
Animates
clip-path. 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
30 more effects in Masks & Clip Paths
All of them free to read, copy and install — no account, no locked tiles, no watermarked preview. The whole catalog is open, and so are the API and the CLI.
Browse Masks & Clip PathsShipping 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
- One payment — no subscription, nothing to renew
7 variations of Torn Paper Edge
Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.