How to make an animated CTA button with TailwindCSS

Intro

In this article I'm going to show you how to create an animated CTA button for your hero section. If you can't hang on to the tutorial, I will show all the code in one piece at the end anyway, so feel free to copy that instead.

Initial Layout

First I'll create the initial layout by nesting our button in a <div> element as follows:

<body>
<div class="flex justify-center items-center">
<div>
</body>

Button

Inside the div you can then create an <a> element, which will be our button and be styled later on.

<a href=""class=""><a>

First of All we need to make our button a bit bigger than just a piece of text, so we have to add some padding to it as follows:

<a href=""class="py-3 px-12"><a>

As can be seen from the thumbnail of this article I also want the background of the button to be white and the background of the page to be black. We also want the edges of the button to be rounded a bit. Also add a border as we will need this for the animation later on

<a href=""class="py-3 px-12 border-[1px] 
border-white text-black bg-white"><a>

I recommend styling the body element's background to be black as follows, you can also apply the background to the <div> element though. It's just easier if the whole page is black.

<body class="bg-[black]"></body>

So that our button is responsive we will also make the button a bit less wide on larger screens.

<a href=""class="py-3 px-12 border-[1px] 
border-white text-black bg-white lg:px-8"><a>

With that out or the way we need to round the button a bit more too by using border-radius .

<a href=""class="py-3 px-12 border-[1px] 
border-white text-black bg-white lg:px-8 rounded-2xl"><a>

Animation

Now that our button looks good, we can add our animation. The animation will happen on hover so that the button will jump up when you hover on it.

<a href=""class="py-3 px-12 border-[1px] 
border-white text-black bg-white lg:px-8 
rounded-2xl transition duration-500 hover:bg-black
 hover:text-white hover:-translate-y-2"><a>

Now we are done, if you didn't catch up somewhere in the tutorial here is all the code at once:

<body class="bg-[black]">
<div class="flex justify-center items-center">

<a href=""class="py-3 px-12 border-[1px] 
border-white text-black bg-white lg:px-8 
rounded-2xl transition duration-500 hover:bg-black
 hover:text-white hover:-translate-y-2"><a> 
<div>
</body>

I really hope this tutorial helped you improve your CTA and made you better at TailwindCSS. Consider checking out my other posts too as you may find them useful as well.

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