39 CSS @property Examples

This Cinematic Black Magic Volume Knob pushes the boundaries of modern CSS, creating a tangible, high-fidelity control element. It combines a standard range input with advanced CSS Houdini features like @property and wide-gamut P3 colors. The result is a glowing, liquid-like interface where turning the dial triggers a cascade of particles and dynamic lighting effects, perfect for premium audio applications or dashboards.

This Holographic 3D Interactive Card is a premium UI component inspired by rare physical trading cards. It features a sophisticated depth effect where the logo floats independently from the iridescent background, reacting dynamically to mouse movements or touch input. The use of modern CSS APIs ensures high-performance rendering of complex gradients and masks, creating a truly immersive “collectible” feel for digital assets.

This Beveled Corner Glow Card component demonstrates the bleeding edge of CSS UI styling. It primarily utilizes the new corner-shape property to create chamfered (angled) edges without complex clip-paths, while implementing a sophisticated CSS Mask fallback for older engines. The interaction features a “scanning” light beam effect on the border, powered by CSS Houdini for buttery smooth interpolation.

This Trigonometric 3D Orbit Gallery is a stunning example of “Code Art,” demonstrating the raw power of modern CSS mathematics. Instead of relying on rigid keyframes for positioning, it uses parametric equations to place and animate 32 images along a complex, fluid 3D curve in real-time, creating a perpetual motion machine effect purely with stylesheets.

This Synchronized Pure CSS Skeleton Loader pushes the boundaries of modern CSS by creating a unified “shimmer” effect that sweeps across multiple disparate elements simultaneously. Unlike standard skeleton loaders that animate each block independently, this implementation ensures a single, globally aligned gradient flow using advanced CSS math and Houdini properties.

This Pure CSS Synthwave 80s Animation captures the nostalgic aesthetic of the 1980s retrowave genre. It features a complete animated scene: an infinite neon grid, a setting sun with scanlines, shaking palm trees, and a DeLorean driving into the distance. The scene is brought to life with a driving synthwave audio track and intricate CSS-only motion.

An interactive spotlight reveal where the cursor controls a negative mask and a physical 3D tilt effect.

A sophisticated hover effect utilizing CSS Houdini to animate a complex image mask.

A holographic typography effect achieved through CSS Houdini properties to animate complex gradient coordinates. The text features a grainy texture generated by SVG noise filters and blended with conic and radial gradients using background-blend-mode: color-burn, creating a shimmering, fluid color movement clipped directly to the character shapes.

This is a pure CSS toggle switch, utilizing :before and :after pseudo-elements to render the track and thumb. It demonstrates effective state management via the :checked pseudo-selector and smooth transitions on all elements for a highly responsive and clean effect.

An advanced “Like” button micro-animation based on CSS @property, where custom variables are used to animate the numbers and the icon.

A cursor effect creating dynamic halftone rings is implemented using CSS Custom Properties and transition properties for smooth mouse-following, requiring minimal JavaScript to update coordinates.

A high-performance, CSS-driven countdown showcasing variable-based theming and complex keyframe animations, where a small JS utility only activates the final celebratory effect.

An interactive horizontal gallery featuring non-standard click-based navigation on side images. The main feature is Vanilla JS tracking clicks and mousemove to dynamically calculate and apply CSS transformations for centering the selected element.

Experience a fluid, animated Range Slider with four vibrant, themeable styles (Rainbow, Ice, Sunset, Slime), powered by Svelte and cutting-edge CSS-only effects.

An advanced UI flow demonstrating the power of the native HTML Popover API for sequential dialogs, utilizing the toggle event and hidePopover() in Vanilla JS to create smooth, zero-dependency popover chaining with custom spring and fade CSS animations.

An elegant loader built purely with CSS/SASS that leverages CSS Houdini’s @property to define and smoothly animate custom numeric properties, enabling a high-performance rotation and hue-shifting loop.

Spectacular animated ring loader built on the advanced capabilities of CSS Houdini to define and smoothly transition custom properties, enabling complex and dynamically changing geometry via conic and radial gradients.

Advanced CSS animation utilizing ten-point delays (nth-child) to create a ripple effect and showcasing CSS Houdini capabilities for animating length and angle values.

A superb demonstration of physically accurate damped oscillation animation, achieved using a registered CSS property (@property --progress) that controls trigonometric functions within calc() to drive the elements’ 3D movement.

This demo shows how to create a realistic 3D sphere effect using pure CSS, without SVG or 3D transformations. The effect is achieved through gradients (radial-gradient), shadows (box-shadow), pseudo-elements (::before, ::after) for highlights and shadows, and dynamic variables (@property) for animation.

A unique CSS-only image slider that uses advanced CSS properties like @property and :has() to control image transitions and UI elements. The background-position and nested radio buttons simulate a complex, fragmented image reveal effect without any JavaScript.

This animated sidebar is built entirely with pure CSS using modern features. The key is @property for a smooth width transition and the :has() selector to track a checkbox’s state, enabling animation control without a single line of JavaScript.

This scroll-driven animation effect is built entirely with CSS Scroll-Driven Animations, using animation-timeline: scroll(). It smoothly translates and transforms elements based on scroll position, creating a dynamic and high-performance parallax effect without JavaScript.

An elegant example of semantic markup, where every element is styled and animated using CSS. The technical foundation includes clip-path, CSS custom properties, and animated pseudo-elements for each visual layer.

Dive deep into modern CSS form control by styling a <select> element’s internal parts like ::picker and ::picker-icon, enhanced with a dynamic hue-rotating border animated via @property.

A showcase of advanced CSS capabilities for creating stunning 2D animations. It uses CSS @property for smooth property transitions, allowing you to animate box-shadow and other elements without compromising performance.

A pure CSS number counter leveraging CSS Houdini’s @property to animate an integer custom property.

A futuristic 3D data block where scrolling digital “circuits” are simulated purely in CSS by animating the background-position of linear-gradient patterns.

An animated rainbow border effect with a neon glow, implemented using @property, conic-gradient, and SVG filters. The @keyframes animation smoothly changes the --a CSS variable, which controls the hue in the conic-gradient, creating a continuous color transition.

A modern and clean way to indicate scrollability: the “fade-to-mist” effect is implemented using mask-image and linear-gradient, while key parameters of the fade phase are precisely tuned using @property.

An adaptive hexagonal grid without media queries, built on Container Queries, where the column count and the position of each element are calculated in CSS via complex calc() functions. The code demonstrates progressive enhancement - with a fallback to @property and a tan(atan2()) math trick to emulate division in older browsers.

A sophisticated CSS-only character selector and sprite animator inspired by Minecraft. It leverages CSS Houdini and advanced math functions to drive complex frame-by-frame sprite animations, while :has() selectors manage state changes for character selection, direction toggling, and dynamic FPS adjustment, complete with real-time stats via CSS counters.

An exceptionally complex image slider/stack UI component, fully implemented via CSS custom properties and CSS Houdini to allow the animation of abstract numerical values; the system uses complex mathematics to control the 3D stacking order, the “fly-out” effect, and random rotation, creating a looping, cascading stack with smooth transitions.

Efficient layout using CSS Grid to stack cards on top of each other, with dynamic layer control via z-index and the :has() selector to determine the position of the next element; the image animation includes movement and straightening of the rotation upon selection.

A state-driven animation, controlled via the “checkbox hack,” showcases the power of CSS @property (Houdini) for smoothly animating gradients and mask properties. A complex multi-layered bookmark shape is created with an SVG mask, while the entire activation effect choreography is built on synchronized @keyframes.

A detailed, volumetric, and animated keyboard model that smoothly changes its backlighting and reacts to user actions, demonstrating the power of CSS for creating 3D objects.

An animated rainbow border with a neon glow, created using @property, repeating-conic-gradient, and SVG filters. The @keyframes CSS animation continuously changes the --a CSS variable, which controls the angle of the conic-gradient, creating a rotating rainbow effect.