20 CSS Tags & Chips Designs

Linked Group

Three connected chips sharing a single border with hairline dividers — like a segmented breadcrumb of tags. Hover lights individual segments.

Linked Group the 19th of 20 designs in the 20 CSS Tags & Chips Designs 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="ctc-linked">
  <a href="#" class="ctc-linked-seg">Components</a>
  <a href="#" class="ctc-linked-seg">CSS</a>
  <a href="#" class="ctc-linked-seg">Buttons</a>
</div>

.ctc-linked {
  display: inline-flex;
  background: #1f1f2e;
  border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
  border-radius: 999px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.ctc-linked-seg {
  display: inline-flex;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 8px 16px;
  color: #c4b5fd;
  font:
    600 12px/1 system-ui,
    sans-serif;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-right: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08);
  transition:
    background 0.15s,
    color 0.15s;
}

.ctc-linked-seg:last-child {
  border-right: 0;
}

.ctc-linked-seg:hover {
  background: rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.18);
  color: #fff;
}