Notification Stack Card
Stacked notification items that slide right and highlight on hover. Pulsing colored dots indicate notification type.
Notification Stack Card the 17th of 20 designs in the 20 CSS Cards with Animations collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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<div class="stage-17">
<div class="card-notif">
<div class="notif-item">
<div class="notif-dot" style="background: #7c6cff"></div>
<div class="notif-body">
<h5>New follower</h5>
<p>@alex started following you</p>
</div>
<span class="notif-time">2m</span>
</div>
<div class="notif-item">
<div class="notif-dot" style="background: #1ed98a"></div>
<div class="notif-body">
<h5>Build passed</h5>
<p>Production deploy successful</p>
</div>
<span class="notif-time">8m</span>
</div>
<div class="notif-item">
<div class="notif-dot" style="background: #ff6c8a"></div>
<div class="notif-body">
<h5>Alert</h5>
<p>CPU usage exceeded 90%</p>
</div>
<span class="notif-time">1h</span>
</div>
</div>
</div> .card-notif {
width: 210px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 8px;
}
.notif-item {
display: flex;
align-items: flex-start;
gap: 10px;
padding: 10px 12px;
border-radius: 10px;
background: var(--ccg-surface2);
border: 1px solid var(--ccg-border);
transform: translateX(0);
transition:
transform 0.2s,
border-color 0.2s,
background 0.2s;
cursor: pointer;
}
.notif-item:hover {
transform: translateX(4px);
border-color: rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.4);
background: rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.06);
}
.notif-dot {
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
border-radius: 50%;
flex-shrink: 0;
margin-top: 3px;
animation: ccg-notif-pulse 2s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.notif-body {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
}
.notif-body h5 {
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: 600;
color: #fff;
margin: 0 0 2px;
}
.notif-body p {
font-size: 10px;
color: var(--ccg-muted);
line-height: 1.4;
margin: 0;
}
.notif-time {
font-family: var(--ccg-mono);
font-size: 9px;
color: var(--ccg-muted);
margin-left: auto;
flex-shrink: 0;
margin-top: 1px;
}
/* parent stage backdrop (so the demo renders standalone) */
[class^="stage-"] {
width: 100%;
min-height: 200px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
position: relative;
padding: 2.5rem 1.5rem;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.stage-17 {
background: #0a0a0f;
}
/* gallery vars + keyframes (so the demo renders standalone) */
:root {
--ccg-bg: #0a0a0f;
--ccg-surface: #111118;
--ccg-surface2: #17171f;
--ccg-surface3: #1e1e28;
--ccg-border: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
--ccg-border2: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.13);
--ccg-accent: #7c6cff;
--ccg-pink: #ff6c8a;
--ccg-green: #1ed98a;
--ccg-amber: #f5a84a;
--ccg-cyan: #3de8f5;
--ccg-text: #f0eeff;
--ccg-muted: #6b6987;
--ccg-label: #9896b8;
--ccg-mono: "DM Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
--ccg-sans: "Syne", sans-serif;
}
@keyframes ccg-notif-pulse {
0%,
100% {
opacity: 1;
}
50% {
opacity: 0.4;
}
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.card-notif,
.card-notif * {
animation: none !important;
}
}
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