CSS Button Generator

A CSS button generator is an online tool that lets you design custom button styles visually — adjusting colors, borders, shadows, padding, and more — and then exports the ready-to-use CSS code. Instead of writing and tweaking CSS rules by hand, you get instant visual feedback and production-ready output in seconds.

Yes. The generated CSS uses standard, widely-supported properties (background, border-radius, box-shadow, transition, transform) that work in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. The code also includes -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased for better text rendering on macOS and iOS. IE 11 is not supported, but IE 11 has been end-of-life since 2022.

The generator produces CSS rules for all five interactive states:

• Normal — the default appearance
• :hover — triggered when the user moves the cursor over the button
• :focus-visible — keyboard focus ring shown only when navigating with a keyboard (accessibility-friendly)
• :active — the pressed state, including an optional scale-down animation
• :disabled / [aria-disabled="true"] — reduced opacity and pointer-events: none

Yes. The tool exports three formats:

• CSS class — paste into any .css, .scss, or <style> block and apply the class to your element
• JSX inline style — paste the style={{ … }} prop directly onto a React <button> component
• HTML inline style — paste the style="…" attribute into a plain HTML <button> tag

Enable the Use gradient toggle in the Background section. A second colour picker and an angle slider will appear. Set your start colour, end colour, and gradient angle to produce a linear-gradient() background. The hover state will automatically darken both gradient stops to give a natural hover effect.

Set the Border radius slider to its maximum value (9999 px). The generated CSS will include border-radius: 9999px, which produces a fully rounded pill shape regardless of the button's height. You may also want to increase the horizontal padding (Padding X) to give the text more breathing room inside the pill.

The CSS class output is a full stylesheet block including :hover, :focus-visible, :active, and :disabled pseudo-class rules. It requires a separate stylesheet or <style> tag and is the recommended approach for reusable, accessible buttons. The inline style output (JSX or HTML) only captures the base appearance — pseudo-class states cannot be expressed as inline styles in HTML. Use inline styles when you need a one-off quick override and are handling hover/focus states separately (for example, with a React useState or CSS Modules).

Yes. Enable Box Shadow in the shadow section and adjust the X offset, Y offset, blur, spread, colour, and opacity independently. For a glow effect, set X and Y to 0, increase the blur radius, and choose a colour that matches the button background. You can also enable a separate Hover shadow so the glow only appears on hover.

Use the Duration slider in the Transition section to set the animation length in milliseconds (0–800 ms). The Easing dropdown lets you choose the acceleration curve: ease, ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out, linear, or the Spring / overshoot curve (cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1)) for a bouncy, playful feel.

The Press scale slider in the Active & Press section applies a transform: scale() to the button when it is clicked and held. A value below 1.0 (for example, 0.97) creates a subtle press-down effect that gives the button a tactile, physical feel. Set it to 1.0 to disable the scale transform entirely.

No. The CSS button generator runs entirely in your browser. No configuration data, colour values, or generated code is ever sent to a server or stored anywhere outside your local browser tab. All processing happens client-side in JavaScript.

The tool does not currently save configurations between sessions. To preserve a design, copy the generated CSS class output and store it in your project — the CSS block fully encodes the visual state of your button and can be pasted back into any stylesheet.

CSS button generators give you full control over every visual detail without the overhead of installing a component library. They are ideal when you need a one-off custom button that matches a specific brand, when you are working in a framework-agnostic environment, or when you want to understand exactly what CSS is being applied. For large design systems with many components, a UI library may be more appropriate.

:focus-visible is a modern CSS pseudo-class that shows a focus indicator only when the element is focused via keyboard navigation — not when clicked with a mouse. This improves accessibility (keyboard users always see where focus is) without showing a distracting outline on every mouse click. It is supported in all modern browsers and is the recommended approach over the older :focus selector for visible focus rings.