Material Design Ripple Click Effect With Pure CSS

Makes use of CSS transitions and position:absolute to create subtle ripple effects on any clickable elements as you seen in Material Design spec.

See also:

• Tiny Cross-platform Ripple Animation Library – ripple.js
• Material Design Ripple Effects In Vanilla JavaScript – rippleJS
• Material Design Click Ripple Effect In Vanilla Javascript – Material Touch
• Android L Ripple Click Effect with Javascript and CSS3
• Google Material Design Ripple Effects with Wave.js
• Google Material Button Ripple Effects On Click – RippleButtons.js

How to use it:

Link to the required stylesheet:

<link href="ripple.css" rel="stylesheet">

Add the CSS class ‘ripple’ to html element and done.

<button type="button" class="ripple" >Primary</button>

Override the default styles in the LESS:

.ripple {
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  &:after {
    content: "";
    background: rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    border-radius: 50%;
    padding-top: 240%;
    padding-left: 240%;
    margin-top: -120%;
    margin-left: -120%;
    opacity: 0;
    transition: all 1s;
  }
  &:active:after {
    padding-top: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    opacity: 1;
    transition: 0s;
  }
}

Changelog:

v1.0.8 (03/18/2021)

• Bugfix