50+ Awesome CSS Focus Effects Collection (Projects and Codes) in 2025

App Navigation Concept

Just a simple menu for a fictitious app. No actual functionality other than simulating an active state when a link gets focus.

In/Out of Focus Text Effect

Water Droplets on Window

Focusing effect on either first translucent layer or the layer behind.

Holiday Feature Folding Cards

A small holiday deals page focusing on folding cards design and functionality, only using HTML and CSS.

Hover Card Interaction

By animating a few CSS paint & composite properties, we can create fun interactions on hover & focus.

Radial Gradient Spotlight Effect

This pen shows how CSS radial gradients can be used to create a focusable spotlight effect.

Apply A CSS Class To Element When It Gets Focus

keyboardFocus.js

A lightweight library that applies a class to an element only when it is focused by tabbing.

focus.js

focus.js is an ES6/Vanilla JavaScript plugin to provide smooth interactive image inner zoom functionality that reacts to mouse movement.

Soft Buttons

Soft Buttons. Hover/focus and press - keep pressed, release, click fast, play with it.

No Questions Asked Form & Magic Focus

Card Theme Switcher

Heres an interaction which allows you to change your card theme. We focused on the two simple micro animations which indicate the accomplishment of changing your card - which is quite a joyful moment for most users.

Extending Search

Search field extends on focus state.

Search Input Animation

Search input animation (pure css, without svg). Added variables for width, height and border-width, so now you can easily change overall dimensions of this search input. This demo have only one problem - no input autofocus after opening click.

All Animation CSS3

The all animation is a framework CSS3 created focusing on 3D's animations and cross browsers. Recently released an update of all animation, which were inserted several animated components made in small lines of CSS3/Stylus.

Glowing Pulse Form

A simple, centered form with a pulsing glow effect on the input during focus.

Rainbow Spotlight

Using background-clip:text and animating clip-path on pseudo element, the ranibow focus was achieved.

amo

A javascript library for creating CSS3 animation.

biomatic

A Flexible Atomic-Focused CSS Toolkit

MarcTooltips.js

A vanilla JavaScript library for adding quick and stylish tooltips to your site

tidy-menu

A clean, primarily CSS3-based, JavaScript controlled menu system, with a focus on keeping the associated HTML tidy, with no dependencies on any 3rd party libraries like JQuery

Complete-Me

DOM friendly autocomplete

app-loading

app-loading is a minimalist JavaScript library used to show a Medium.com style app loading bar with smooth CSS3 animations.

steps.js

Steps.js is a vanilla Javascript library for creating guided user flows

cursor-dot

cursor-dot is a vanilla JavaScript library which creates customizable, interactive cursor effects when hovering over certain elements.

GoScrollJs

GoScrollJs is a lightweight, performant, vertical smooth scroll JavaScript library that enables trigger element to smoothly scroll the page to a specific element or point within the document.