Simon Holdorf

Posted on Oct 18, 2019

This is probably the funniest Codepen I found this year!

#webdev #discuss #javascript #css

This is rather a short post but I find this codepen by Bård N Hovde so awesome that I must share it with you:

Amazing what you can do with JavaScript and CSS, agree?

Please leave a comment if you like this as well or managed to hit the button. Also don't forget to follow me here and on Twitter for more upcoming posts!

Top comments (55)

Chris Achard • Oct 18 '19 • Edited

Ha, I saw this other day - it's fantastic :)

For anyone looking in the code for the 'trick' (of hiding the mouse), it's done by setting the cursor in JS on this line:

const screenStyle = cursorGrabbed ? { cursor: "none" } : {};

and then the fake mouse pointer is part of the hand graphic. Brilliant!

SavagePixie • Oct 18 '19

Oh, so there is a cursor trick! I've seen it on my mobile, where you can obviously just tap on things, so I hadn't caught on this feature.

sanjaysupanch • Oct 18 '19

oSM

Gabe Romualdo • Oct 18 '19 • Edited

Pretty fun, with a combination of fast mouse movements and right-click trickery, I managed to produce a waving hand without changing any of the code.

— Gabriel

Sebastian Gutierrez • Oct 18 '19

I just pass the mouse very close to the bottom of page hahaha

Fulton Browne • Oct 19 '19

that worked for me

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • Oct 19 '19

But you won't be able to press the Button 😁.

Amruth Pillai • Oct 19 '19 • Edited

Brilliant use of CSS and logic. Had so much fun playing around with this.
And using the Chrome Dev Console, clicked the button using Javascript, this was the result.
Cool that the dev included that as well :)

Antonio Salvati 🦊 • Oct 23 '19

or focus it pressing tab :)

Robin Kretzschmar • Oct 18 '19

That... was awesome! It really made me laugh loud in the office 👍🤣
Thanks for sharing this!

Simon Holdorf • Oct 18 '19

You're welcome 😄

Jakob Wildrain • Oct 23 '19 • Edited

Yes, it is! Click on the text above the button (to gain focus) and use TAB to select the button, now press SPACE or ENTER. You have pressed the button and it changes the caption to "Nice one".
While it is technically not "clickable", it is indeed "pressable", to use your own word ;)