30+ Awesome CSS Glow Effects (Free Code + Demos)

Enjoy these 100% Free and Open Source HTML and Pure CSS glow effect code examples. They are easy to add to your own project.

1. CSS Neon Glow

CSS Glow Effects - CSS Neon Glow
Designed for use with Chrome. Hover them :)
Author: Felix Rilling (FelixRilling)
Created on: March 1, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: css, font, ui

2. CSS Gradient Glow Letter

CSS Glow Effects - CSS Gradient Glow Letter
Author: Sathya (sathyaram)
Created on: November 2, 2019
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS
Tags: gradient, glowing, vibrant, letter, shadow

3. Todrick Triangle - Neon Glow Effect Using CSS Drop Shadows And Clip Paths

CSS Glow Effects - Todrick Triangle - Neon Glow Effect Using CSS Drop Shadows and Clip Paths
CSS neon glow effect using drop shadows and clip-path.
Author: Dave Brogan (davebrogan)
Created on: November 27, 2019
Made with: HTML, SCSS

4. Card Outer CSS Glow Effect

CSS Glow Effects - Card Outer CSS Glow Effect
Author: quangdao (lincohn)
Created on: September 13, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS

5. Scanning CSS Glow Lines

CSS Glow Effects - Scanning CSS Glow Lines
Author: Keely (keeann)
Created on: May 31, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS

6. Glass Effect Social Media Buttons With Neon Glow

CSS Glow Effects - Glass effect social media buttons with neon glow
A CSS only implementation of glass-like neon glow buttons with text gradients & box-shadows.
Author: Kevin Miranda (kevinmiranda)
Created on: May 20, 2019
Made with:
Tags: glass effect, button, glass, neon, glow

7. Gradient Color Button With Hover Glow

CSS Glow Effects - Gradient color  button with hover glow
Author: Jesper Lauridsen (justjspr)
Created on: May 7, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS

8. Lightbulb Glow

CSS Glow Effects - Lightbulb Glow
Author: Matt Benson (MattgyverTV)
Made with: HTML, CSS

9. The Glow 60s Edition

CSS Glow Effects - The glow 60s edition
Author: Jean-Pierre Barthelemy (jpbarth)
Created on: January 7, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS

10. Glowing Stuff

CSS Glow Effects - glowing stuff
Exploration of pulsing glow effects for a banner animation.
Author: Kellie Kowalski (scifriday)
Created on: November 15, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS

11. CSS Glow Effects

CSS Glow Effects - CSS Glow Effects
Author: Maryam (maryamali)
Created on: December 3, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS

12. Animated Back Glow

CSS Glow Effects - Animated Back Glow
Psuedo Element + Background Gradient Animation + Blur = Badass
Author: George Hastings (georgehastings)
Created on: January 8, 2017
Made with: HTML, SCSS

13. Glowing Translucent Marble

CSS Glow Effects - Glowing Translucent Marble
Shows how to apply various box-shadows together on a single element to create a colorful glow effect. Blog post: Creating Glow Effects with CSS
Author: Will Boyd (lonekorean)
Created on: March 28, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: box-shadow, glow, color, translucent, marble

14. CSS Magical Glow Effect

CSS Glow Effects - CSS Magical Glow Effect
A pseudorandom pulsing glow effect using only CSS3. This will only work in "webkit" browsers such as Chrome, but would work in other browsers if the appropriate prefixes were added.
Author: Matt Sorrentino (msorrentino)
Created on: April 29, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: css3, animation

15. Circles And Stacking

CSS Glow Effects - Circles and Stacking
Simple example of stacking box-shadows on a round element to create a glow effect. Blog post: Creating Glow Effects with CSS
Author: Will Boyd (lonekorean)
Created on: March 28, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: box-shadow, glow, color, circles, stacking

16. Glowing Pulse Form

CSS Glow Effects - Glowing Pulse Form
A simple, centered form with a pulsing glow effect on the input during focus. This was an entry for a WebDesign Tuts post here: http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/workshops/community-project-style-a-simple-search-form/
Author: Jack Rugile (jackrugile)
Created on: July 8, 2012
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: glowing, css, pulse, form, animation

17. Glow Button

CSS Glow Effects - Glow Button
Author: Hornebom (Hornebom)
Created on: February 5, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS

18. Glow Flicker

CSS Glow Effects - Glow Flicker
Flickering neon sign. Almost entirely CSS.
Author: Kevin (KevinOgden)
Created on: February 11, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: neon, animation, css, flicker

19. Hover Glow Effect

CSS Glow Effects - Hover glow effect
Author: Adam Jones (adamskye)
Created on: April 15, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css-animation

20. Hover Glow Buttons

CSS Glow Effects - Hover Glow Buttons
Author: Stockin (Stockin)
Created on: September 26, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS

21. Neon Glow

CSS Glow Effects - Neon Glow
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Author: EstenGrove (EstenGrove)
Created on: August 12, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: text-shadow, neon, glow-effect

22. Glowing Enter Button

CSS Glow Effects - Glowing Enter Button
A simple button with a glowing effect created using CSS keyframes.
Author: Jordan Craig (JieeHD)
Created on: March 15, 2013
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: css, animation, button, glow, green

23. Simple Glow Effect

CSS Glow Effects - Simple Glow Effect
Author: Raúl Hernández M. (raulghm)
Created on: July 25, 2015
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css, glow, outer glow, alert

24. Spinner With Glowing, Gooey Effect

CSS Glow Effects - Spinner with Glowing, Gooey Effect
An SVG implementation of the spinner animation by Christophe Kerebel. The circular CSS animation was made possible by this brilliant post.
Author: Lou (hostsamurai)
Created on: September 15, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: svg, css

25. Glow Buttons With CSS

CSS Glow Effects - Glow Buttons with CSS
Simple glowing buttons with CSS. Get a glow effect upon hover.
Author: Kanishk Kunal (kanishkkunal)
Created on: January 16, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: buttons, glow-effect

26. Infinity Loader Without SVG

CSS Glow Effects - Infinity Loader Without SVG
Glowing effect doesn't work in Edge and IE. Little mis-alignment in the circles in Firefox.
Author: zFunx (zFunx)
Created on: March 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS

27. Glowing & Responsive Text

CSS Glow Effects - Glowing & Responsive Text
Changing the content property of an html element also applying a glow effect with a smooth transition, using CSS. My proposed answer to the following question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51696903/2149425
Author: Riccardo Volpe (ChemBioScripting)
Created on: August 5, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: change content property, css, glow-effect

28. Pure CSS Glow Board Animation

CSS Glow Effects - Pure CSS glow board animation
This is a pure CSS Glowing board effect, that glows on hover.
Author: Prakhar Thakur (PrakharThakur)
Created on: October 30, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: css, pure-css, glow-effect, nojs