Magnetic Hover
On hover the chip text drifts toward the cursor edge via a CSS-only "magnet" trick — purely transition-based, no pointer math, no JS.
Magnetic Hover the 2nd 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-mag"> <a href="#" class="ctc-mag-chip"><span>Hover me</span></a> <a href="#" class="ctc-mag-chip"><span>And me</span></a> <a href="#" class="ctc-mag-chip"><span>Try it</span></a> </div>
.ctc-mag {
display: flex;
gap: 10px;
}
.ctc-mag-chip {
position: relative;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 8px 16px;
background: #1f1f2e;
border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
border-radius: 999px;
color: #f0eeff;
font:
600 12px/1 system-ui,
sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
overflow: hidden;
transition:
border-color 0.2s,
background 0.2s;
}
.ctc-mag-chip span {
display: inline-block;
transition: transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1);
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
.ctc-mag-chip:hover {
background: #2a2a3e;
border-color: #7c6cff;
}
.ctc-mag-chip:hover span {
transform: translateX(3px) scale(1.05);
}
.ctc-mag-chip::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
background: radial-gradient(
circle at var(--mx, 50%) var(--my, 50%),
rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.35),
transparent 60%
);
opacity: 0;
transition: opacity 0.25s;
}
.ctc-mag-chip:hover::before {
opacity: 1;
}