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CSS Button Generator

Design a reusable CSS button with coordinated colors, spacing, border, typography, radius, and shadow.

Privacy: your files never leave your device. All processing happens locally in your browser.

How to use

  1. 1.Choose background, text, and border colors.
  2. 2.Adjust border, radius, padding, font, and shadow values.
  3. 3.Inspect the real button preview at desktop and mobile widths.
  4. 4.Copy the CSS class, rename it if needed, and add interactive states.

About CSS Button Generator

CSS Button Generator turns the most common button styling decisions into a compact visual workbench. Choose background, text, and border colors; set border width and corner radius; adjust horizontal and vertical padding; select font size and weight; and control a simple drop shadow. The preview is a real HTML button styled with the same values used to produce the CSS output. When the balance feels right, copy a complete .button rule and adapt the class name to your project. The generator uses ordinary CSS properties, so the result works without a framework, component library, image asset, or JavaScript runtime.

Spacing is usually the most important part of a button. Vertical padding controls height and breathing room around the label, while horizontal padding controls the visual width. Font size and weight affect both readability and perceived emphasis. A border can improve definition on pale backgrounds, and radius changes the tone from technical to friendly or pill-like. The shadow controls use the standard horizontal offset, vertical offset, and blur order. Negative offsets move the shadow left or up; blur must stay nonnegative. The generated shadow uses a restrained translucent black so the controls remain understandable rather than becoming a full shadow editor.

Colors are accepted as six-digit hexadecimal values. Native color inputs provide predictable browser validation and the logic checks the serialized value again. This avoids ambiguous named colors and makes copied results stable. The generator does not calculate contrast automatically. You remain responsible for confirming text contrast in default, hover, active, disabled, and focus states. A color combination that looks acceptable in the preview can still fail accessibility requirements on a different display or when a user applies forced colors. Use a contrast checker and preserve a visible focus indicator.

The output includes background-color, color, border, border-radius, padding, font-size, font-weight, box-shadow, and cursor. It intentionally does not invent hover, focus-visible, active, loading, or disabled styles because those states depend on product semantics. Add them in your stylesheet after copying. For example, hover may slightly change background, active may reduce the shadow or translate the element, and disabled should communicate unavailability without relying only on opacity. A focus-visible outline should not be removed unless replaced by an equally clear indicator.

Bounds prevent accidental values from creating an unusable preview or enormous output. Border width, radius, padding, font size, weight, and shadow controls each have a documented practical range. Finite zero values remain valid where CSS allows them. The preview button has type=button so it does not accidentally submit a surrounding form. The copied selector is deliberately generic; rename it or scope it to avoid collisions. Test the result with short and long labels, translated text, icons, narrow screens, zoom, keyboard navigation, and touch.

All calculation and preview work stays in the browser. Lizely does not receive or store the design values. The tool is best used to establish a baseline, not an entire design system. Start from your existing tokens when possible, keep minimum touch dimensions in mind, and verify the final component in context. Consistency across primary, secondary, destructive, and quiet buttons matters more than making one isolated button visually elaborate.

Methodology & sources

Validates hexadecimal colors and bounded finite numeric controls, serializes standard border, padding, typography, radius, and box-shadow property order, and applies the same style object to a real button preview.

Frequently asked questions

Does the generated CSS include hover and focus states?
No. It creates the base class because interactive states depend on your product semantics. Add hover, active, disabled, and focus-visible rules after copying.
Does the tool verify color contrast?
No. Check every state with a dedicated contrast tool and test forced colors and visible keyboard focus.
Are the values uploaded?
No. The preview and CSS generation run entirely in the current browser tab.

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