50 CSS3 button examples with effects & animations

Are you looking for some CSS3 buttons, which are good enough to be used in real-world website projects? here are some CSS3 buttons you might like. Since my last post about codepen buttons, I've been searching sites like codepen, cssdeck and jsfiddle for some good practical buttons and I'm amazed to find so many cool CSS3 buttons with nice effects and animations. Here are some wonderful buttons I've picked, which I think are cool and practical and can be used in your web projects. Some buttons here do use jQuery, but not too lavishly to mess-up everything.

CSS3 Button Generator

Checkout Sanwebe CSS3 button generator.

CSS3 Pink Button with Pacifico font

Nice 3D pink rectangle button uses CSS3 transition effects. Other than small jQuery code to play the sound and change inner text, it's entirely made using pure CSS3.

Collection of CSS3 3D Web Buttons

Collection of 3D buttons, created only using CSS3. The buttons were inspired by freebie PSD Chunky 3D buttons.

CSS3 Social 3D buttons

Nicely done social buttons only using CSS3 and icon font.

CSS3 Animated buttons

Circle animated buttons with CSS3 background patterns. Might not work in Firefox 3.6 and IE10.

CSS3 Circle Animated buttons

Another circle animated buttons, but this time, the text rotation on mouse hover gives really nice effect.

Clean Circle buttons

Another example of circle CSS3 buttons.

Pure CSS3 Toggle Buttons

Nicely created Toggle buttons, entirely created using CSS3 and icon font.

CSS3 Animated Button

A nice looking 3d button created using CSS3 and Google fonts.

CSS3 Button Effects

Buttons demonstrate cool animations using different CSS3 properties.

Shiny CSS3 Buttons

We are now absolutely sure that we can easily create shiny buttons only using CSS3, no more photoshop.

3D CSS3 Buttons

It's pretty amazing what you can do with CSS3 pseudo elements :before and :after. Checkout amazingly done 3d buttons.

CSS3 Switch

A pure-CSS3 button switch example, no javascript used.

3D flip button effect

3D flip button effect on click, created only using CSS3.

Brand Buttons

No effects or animation, just collection of popular brand buttons using CSS and bootstrap icons.

Dark circled button

A circle button inspired by this dribbble shot example. Small jQuery code to give blob effect on click.

CSS3 Switch

A Switch inspired by dribbble shot, created only using CSS3.

Beautiful Flat Buttons

A collection of flat buttons for all occasions, no animation or effects.

Social Media Sharing Buttons

Much nicer version of social share buttons, only nonfunctional. As per author it should work in IE7+.

Christmas Button

CSS Christmas button using data:urls, a method to embed the image data directly into the document.

Soft Button

A round shiny button using CSS3.

Soft Button

Buttons only uses unicode symbols, you can also use text or icon fonts.

Chunky 3D pure CSS3 Animated

Another set of 3D animated buttons for websites. Animation is done using the animation and keyframes properties.

CSS3 Metal UI buttons

Collection of CSS3 metal button, the symbols were created with the help of "pictos" font by using @font-face. Box-shadow and linear-gradient properties were used to create metal look.

CSS3 rounded buttons

Another collection of rounded animated button created using CSS3.

Pressable CSS3 Social Buttons

Buttons uses simple CSS3 properties like gradients, box-shadows, text-shadows etc. Hover and active states are also included in this set.

CSS3 Simple Push buttons

Nice CSS3 buttons. The HTML and CSS codes are much more usable in real world projects.

CSS3 3D download button

This 3D download button uses perspective transform to make the button look 3D which works only in webkit browsers.

Amazing CSS3 Social Buttons

These social buttons use liner-gradient as the base background, box-shadow for 3D effect, the icons are the result of data:URI.

Big Button

A big fat shiny CSS3 button with a shadow effect beneath it. The button uses font called "Sansita One" from Google font.

Simple Buttons

Just some simple CSS buttons for the refinement.

CSS3 Social Buttons

Another set of Social buttons created using CSS3, it uses :before and :after to create the button itself. The icons are from fontawesome.io.

Simple CSS buttons

A series of simple CSS buttons. They are easy to customize and use. Can easily be integrated with Font-Awesome or other icons library to bring it out more.

Poker Chip Button

Simple poker chip button example using CSS3, Can also be used as a button with hover effect.

Slidey Button

Slidey CSS3 button concept, based on Dribble shot by @buatoom.

Admin Menu Buttons

Administration bar (or menu or navigation) with css3 and fontawesome. When toggle on button class active is added using jQuery.

Stitched Button

A simple button with stitched look, demonstrating the possibility of CSS3, no background image used.

Spin Button

Circular button with spinning border for hover indication.

Pure CSS3 Button

A clean soft button created only using CSS3, the button was inspired by this Dribble example.

Slide Out Card CSS3 Button

These buttons look like cards that slide out of a sleeve. Useful for teasing a user or for any info that needs to remain hidden until the user chooses.

Candybar CSS3 Button animation

A Pure CSS candybar button animation to denote loading state.

CSS3 On/Off Switches

Nicely created CSS3 On/Off Switches created using CSS3, uses small jQuery code to toggle class.

Glossy CSS3 Buttons

Set of glossy css3 buttons, uses various CSS3 properties to give it 3D glossy look.

3D buttons with multi-color button edge

Pure CSS3 buttons with multi color button edge.

8-bit Hovers

Checkout these brilliant 8-bit Hovers buttons.

Sullivan Buttons

Simple and clean buttons made using pure CSS. Icons from FontAwesome used.

Sexy SCSS buttons in HSB

Some CSS buttons with FontAwesome icons.

Clean Button Set

Some regular clean button set for your web applications.

Facebook Buttons

The easiest way to make people think: "Wow, this app must be as good as Facebook!".

Button Switch

Bootstrap button toggle switch.

Animated CSS3 Buttons

A collection of CSS3 animated buttons to spice up your site

AColorful CSS Buttons

A collection of various types of CSS buttons in various colors.