Gradient Rotate
The card border becomes a conic-gradient that hue-rotates continuously on hover, cycling the full spectrum.
Gradient Rotate the 15th of 27 designs in the 27 CSS Card Hover Effects 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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The code
<div class="card-15">
<div class="card-15__inner">
<span class="card-15__tag">Color</span>
<h4 class="card-15__title">Gradient Rotate</h4>
<p class="card-15__body">Border hue-rotates continuously on hover.</p>
</div>
</div> .card-15__tag {
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 10px;
padding: 2px 8px;
border-radius: 20px;
background: rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.15);
color: #7c6cff;
border: 1px solid rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.3);
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.card-15__title {
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: 700;
color: #f0eeff;
margin-bottom: 6px;
}
.card-15__body {
font-size: 13px;
color: #b8b6d4;
line-height: 1.6;
}
.card-15 {
width: 100%;
max-width: 280px;
border-radius: 14px;
padding: 2px;
cursor: pointer;
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05);
transition: background 0.3s;
}
.card-15:hover {
background: conic-gradient(#7c6cff, #ff6c8a, #3de8f5, #1ed98a, #7c6cff 360deg);
animation: card-15-spin 4s linear infinite;
}
@keyframes card-15-spin {
to { filter: hue-rotate(360deg); }
}
.card-15__inner {
border-radius: 12px;
padding: 22px;
background: #17171f;
}