40+ CSS Border Animations (Free)

Check out these 100% Free HTML and CSS border animation examples. These are the best CSS3 border animations I could find.

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1. Animated CSS Border-Radius

CSS Border Animations - Animated CSS Border-Radius

Resize the container to see how the color of the shapes and text in the block changes.

Author: Andrej Sharapov (andrejsharapov)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: January 28, 2019

Made with: Pug, SCSS

CSS Pre-processor: SCSS

JS Pre-processor: None

HTML Pre-processor: Pug

Tags: mix-blend-mode, luminosity, animating, border-radius, css

2. Animated SVG CSS Border

This is a cool idea - A CSS Border using an animated SVG. Very creative solution.

CSS Border Animations - Animated SVG CSS Border

Author: Louis Hoebregts (Mamboleoo)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: September 16, 2019

Made with: HTML, SCSS

3. Animated CSS Border (Blue)

This is styled in a dark blue color scheme. Perfect for a video game or animated book / article website.

CSS Border Animations - Animated CSS Border (Blue)

border-animation-css is create only in use of css.

Author: Swarup Kumar Kuila (uiswarup)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: August 6, 2018

Made with: HTML, CSS

4. Animated Gradient Border-Radius

It is a sort of egg-shaped gradient element that looks very unique. The author, Nick Lewis used Stylus to create it, but you can always compile it down to pure CSS3 within the Codepen.

CSS Border Animations - Animated Gradient Border-Radius

Author: Nick lewis (nickylew)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: October 13, 2018

Made with: HTML, Stylus

5. Dashed Border Icon Animations

CSS Border Animations - Dashed Border Icon Animations

icon animations success, warning and danger. Simple and clean icon animations

Author: FlorinCornea (FlorinCornea)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: March 3, 2020

Made with: HTML, CSS

Tags: icon, animations, success, danger, warning

6. Gradient CSS Border (Without Pseudo Elements)

CSS Border Animations - Gradient CSS Border (Without Pseudo Elements)

Author: Stefan Judis (stefanjudis)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: January 18, 2019

Made with: HTML, SCSS

7. Blob-shaped Border Radius

CSS Border Animations - Blob-shaped border radius

Author: Jessica Aiskel (Ninaiskel)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: October 4, 2019

Made with: HTML, SCSS

Tags: css, border-radius

8. Rotating Border

Author: Jesse B (Chester)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: April 27, 2019

Made with: HTML, SCSS

9. Gold Border Shimmer

CSS Border Animations - Gold Border Shimmer

Author: Kevin Cullen (kevinmcullen)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: February 1, 2019

Made with: HTML, CSS

10. SVG Ellipse Border Animation

CSS Border Animations - SVG Ellipse Border Animation

Author: Corey Bullman (coreybullman)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: July 6, 2016

Made with: HTML, SCSS

11. SVG Border Animation 1

CSS Border Animations - SVG Border Animation 1

Author: Zach Saucier (Zeaklous)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: January 13, 2014

Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

Tags: svg-animation, svg, animation, css-transition

12. [PURE CSS] Border Animation Without Svg

CSS Border Animations - [PURE CSS] border animation without svg

single element animation icon~ inspired by: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/BorderAnimationSVG/ & http://mopcon.org/2014/news.php brower support: animation: IE10+ clip: all browser

Author: Rplus (Rplus)

Links: Source Code / Demo, Tympanus.net, Mopcon.org

Created on: September 26, 2014

Made with: Pug, SCSS

CSS Pre-processor: SCSS

JS Pre-processor: None

HTML Pre-processor: Pug

Tags: css, border, animation, clip

13. CSS-only Border Animation

CSS Border Animations - CSS-only border animation

CSS-only border animation on hover. It needs a solid background in order to work.

Author: Danny Joris (DannyJoris)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: April 10, 2018

Made with: Pug, SCSS

CSS Pre-processor: SCSS

JS Pre-processor: None

HTML Pre-processor: Pug

Tags: css, css-only, border, animation, hover

14. Border-gradient Mixin

CSS Border Animations - Border-gradient mixin

Implementation of border gradient that can be applied to elements with border-radius.

Author: John Grishin (exah)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: April 24, 2014

Made with: HTML, SCSS

Tags: border-radius, gradient, circle, box-shadow, css

15. Button Border Slide Mixin

CSS Border Animations - Button Border Slide Mixin

A Sass mixin for a link animation where the "border" slides around the link on hover.

Author: Thomas Vaeth (thomasvaeth)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: July 5, 2017

Made with: HTML, SCSS

Tags: button, sass-mixin, animation, transition, link

16. Draw Borders From Center!

CSS Border Animations - Draw borders from center!

Draw borders from the center of the box using psudo elements

Author: Ben Sheppard (flatking)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: January 12, 2017

Made with: HTML, CSS

Tags: css, html, pseudo, animation, css-animation

17. Border Composition And Animation

CSS Border Animations - Border composition and animation

Show staggered border composition without resorting to empty elements and using multiple backgrounds instead.

Author: paolo cavanna (paolocavanna)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: July 27, 2016

Made with: HTML, CSS

Tags: css, border, animation

18. CSS-only Border Animation

CSS-only border animation on hover. It needs a solid background in order to work.

Author: Danny Joris (DannyJoris)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: April 10, 2018

Made with: Pug, SCSS

CSS Pre-processor: SCSS

JS Pre-processor: None

HTML Pre-processor: Pug

Tags: css, css-only, border, animation, hover

19. CSS Border Hover Transitions

CSS Border Animations - CSS border hover transitions

Border transitions using CSS

Author: Jamie Calder (jamiecalder)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: October 24, 2015

Made with: HTML, SCSS

Tags: css, border, transitions, scss

20. Animated Border Tracing

CSS Border Animations - Animated border tracing

Author: Jameal G (realjameal)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: July 11, 2015

Made with: HTML, CSS

Tags: border-animation, border tracing, animated border

21. Double Border Animation

CSS Border Animations - Double border animation

A border animation in SVG using two lines. Based on Zach Saucier's animation.

Author: Antares (antares)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: December 11, 2014

Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

Tags: svg, svg-animation, css-animation, border

22. Border Animation Effect With SVG And CSS

CSS Border Animations - Border Animation Effect with SVG and CSS

The website of Carl Philipe Brenner has some very creative and subtle animations and today we want to explore how to recreate a border animation effect using CSS transitions on SVG lines.

Links: Source Code / Demo

23. SVG Border Animation

CSS Border Animations - SVG Border Animation

Author: Zach Saucier (Zeaklous)

Links: Source Code / Demo, Codepen.io

Created on: January 13, 2014

Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

Tags: svg-animation, svg, animation, css-transition

24. Animated Border Gradient Effect

CSS Border Animations - Animated Border Gradient Effect

I've created an animated gradient border using css3 gradients and animations. I make changes to the "background-position" CSS property during animation to give the effect.

Author: Jonathan Dauz (jondauz)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: September 1, 2013

Made with: HTML, SCSS

Tags: css3, gradients, animations

25. Framed

Author: Chance Squires (chancesq)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: May 13, 2020

Made with: HTML, CSS

26. Border-radius Animation

CSS Border Animations - Border-radius animation

Author: yuku (yukulele)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: June 25, 2013

Made with: HTML, SCSS

Tags: pure-css

27. Loading Animation

CSS Border Animations - Loading Animation

Stitching effect. Using clip: rect(); with animations to create a (unique?) border animation. I've not seen this anywhere else on the web (I'm sure it probably maybe possibly exists?) I'm no good with math, so the animation sequencing is a little asymmetric. Would love to ...

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Author: Simon Goellner (simeydotme)

Links: Source Code / Demo

Created on: February 6, 2013

Made with: HTML, Less, JS

Tags: rodeo-002, animation, loading, clip