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CSS placeholder shimmer effect ✨ – overlay a placeholder element – set aria-hidden and pointer-events: none – show when :placeholder-shown – visually hide actual :placeholder – use mask for the border – background-clip for the text 🤙 Check the debug 👇🎬

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jhey ▲🐻🎈's profile picture
jhey ▲🐻🎈1 year ago

little text shimmer was used here 👇 and there was a request for how to do it 🤙 you could use :placeholder and @​property too. gets a little tricky with browser inconsistency though 🥲

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jhey ▲🐻🎈1 year ago

if you're interested in learning more about building things like this and other awesome UI on the web... first issue goes out this week 🤙 (support has been awesome btw, thank you people 🙏)

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Gustav Ekerot1 year ago

jhey you’re like 83% of my bookmarks

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Joe Attardi1 year ago

That is awesome! It's not as cool as yours but I did something similar a while back ,a button with a shine effect on hover:

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jhey ▲🐻🎈1 year ago

Like that with the twist 🤙 Did this one with a link to play with that shine bar effect 🤓

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Ayan Patel1 year ago

It's look Clean 🗿

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Dennis Plucinik1 year ago

@chrispian Very clean

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Adnan Muttaqin1 year ago

That is awesome!

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Hüseyin1 year ago

CSS can be pure art sometimes

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Gemma Black1 year ago

Just with CSS?! Nice!

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