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  14. 14Tailwind CRT Scanline Terminal Card with Sweeping Beam
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Tailwind CRT Scanline Terminal Card with Sweeping Beam

A phosphor-green cold-storage terminal with static scanlines, a refresh beam that sweeps top to bottom, a blinking block cursor and a CRT vignette. Four stacked overlays, two keyframes, and every one of them addressed from the markup.

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<section class="tch-14 w-full min-h-svh grid place-items-center bg-tch14-bg font-tch14-mono p-8">
  <article tabindex="0" class="group relative w-[340px] h-[430px] rounded-[10px] overflow-hidden cursor-pointer outline-none bg-tch14-card border border-tch14-green/60 shadow-[0_0_25px_rgb(0_255_120/0.12),inset_0_0_30px_rgb(0_255_120/0.05)] focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-tch14-green focus-visible:outline-offset-4">
    <div class="relative z-1 h-full p-[2.2rem] flex flex-col justify-between text-tch14-green [text-shadow:0_0_4px_rgb(56_255_142/0.6)]">
      <span class="text-[0.8rem] tracking-[0.1em] opacity-70">&gt; SYSTEM/READY_</span>
      <h2 class="font-tch14-display text-[3.4rem] leading-[0.95]">VAULT<br>OS 9<span class="inline-block w-[0.6ch] bg-tch14-green animate-tch14-blink motion-reduce:animate-none">&nbsp;</span></h2>
      <p class="text-[0.85rem] leading-[1.6] opacity-85">Cold-storage terminal for archival data. Phosphor-green display, zero network exposure.</p>
      <div class="flex justify-between text-[0.75rem] border-t border-dashed border-tch14-green/40 pt-3 opacity-70"><span>UPTIME 4096d</span><span>MEM 64K OK</span></div>
    </div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-2 pointer-events-none bg-[repeating-linear-gradient(0deg,rgb(0_0_0/0.25)_0_1px,transparent_1px_3px)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-x-0 -top-20 h-20 z-3 pointer-events-none opacity-0 transition-opacity duration-300 bg-linear-to-b from-transparent via-tch14-green/20 to-transparent group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:animate-tch14-sweep group-focus-visible:opacity-100 group-focus-visible:animate-tch14-sweep motion-reduce:animate-none motion-reduce:group-hover:animate-none"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-4 pointer-events-none bg-[radial-gradient(ellipse_at_center,transparent_60%,rgb(0_0_0/0.5))]"></div>
  </article>
</section>
@import "tailwindcss";

@keyframes tch14-sweep {
  0% {
    top: -80px;
  }

  100% {
    top: 100%;
  }
}

@keyframes tch14-blink {
  50% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@theme {
  --color-tch14-bg: #04110a;
  --color-tch14-bg: oklch(0.14 0.03 155);
  --color-tch14-card: #021006;
  --color-tch14-card: oklch(0.12 0.03 155);
  --color-tch14-green: #38ff8e;
  --color-tch14-green: oklch(0.88 0.21 152);
  --font-tch14-mono: 'Share Tech Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
  --font-tch14-display: 'VT323', ui-monospace, monospace;
  --animate-tch14-sweep: tch14-sweep 2s linear infinite;
  --animate-tch14-blink: tch14-blink 1s steps(1) infinite;
}

.tch-14 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}

Setup — do this once per project

Skip this if your project already runs Tailwind v4.

1Load Tailwind
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindcss/browser@4"></script>

Compiles in the browser — perfect for a CodePen or a quick test, not for production.

2Add the stylesheetRequiredthe @theme block is what makes the custom utilities exist
@import "tailwindcss";

@keyframes tch14-sweep {
  0% {
    top: -80px;
  }

  100% {
    top: 100%;
  }
}

@keyframes tch14-blink {
  50% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@theme {
  --color-tch14-bg: #04110a;
  --color-tch14-bg: oklch(0.14 0.03 155);
  --color-tch14-card: #021006;
  --color-tch14-card: oklch(0.12 0.03 155);
  --color-tch14-green: #38ff8e;
  --color-tch14-green: oklch(0.88 0.21 152);
  --font-tch14-mono: 'Share Tech Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
  --font-tch14-display: 'VT323', ui-monospace, monospace;
  --animate-tch14-sweep: tch14-sweep 2s linear infinite;
  --animate-tch14-blink: tch14-blink 1s steps(1) infinite;
}

.tch-14 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}
3Fonts used by this demooptional — skip if you have your own type stack
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=VT323&family=Share+Tech+Mono&display=swap">

What changed in the port

Which parts became utilities, which stayed CSS, and why.

  • Two keyframes, two --animate-* entries, and the rest of the demo is utilities — a good illustration of where the v4 line falls: motion definitions in CSS, motion application in markup.
  • The sweep animates top, which this collection otherwise forbids. Inside a clipped card with one 80px strip it is both cheap and clearer than a transform; the rule exists for layout that has siblings to push around.
  • UI change from the CSS original: focusable card, beam sweeps on group-focus-visible:, and the dashed stat rule uses a token-derived alpha rather than a hard-coded rgba.
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Demo: Tailwind CRT Scanline Terminal Card with Sweeping Beam
Source: https://codefronts.com/motion/tailwind-css-card-hover-effects/tailwind-crt-scanline-terminal-card/

A phosphor-green cold-storage terminal with static scanlines, a refresh beam that sweeps top to bottom, a blinking block cursor and a CRT vignette. Four stacked overlays, two keyframes, and every one of them addressed from the markup.
## HTML
```html
<section class="tch-14 w-full min-h-svh grid place-items-center bg-tch14-bg font-tch14-mono p-8">
  <article tabindex="0" class="group relative w-[340px] h-[430px] rounded-[10px] overflow-hidden cursor-pointer outline-none bg-tch14-card border border-tch14-green/60 shadow-[0_0_25px_rgb(0_255_120/0.12),inset_0_0_30px_rgb(0_255_120/0.05)] focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-tch14-green focus-visible:outline-offset-4">
    <div class="relative z-1 h-full p-[2.2rem] flex flex-col justify-between text-tch14-green [text-shadow:0_0_4px_rgb(56_255_142/0.6)]">
      <span class="text-[0.8rem] tracking-[0.1em] opacity-70">&gt; SYSTEM/READY_</span>
      <h2 class="font-tch14-display text-[3.4rem] leading-[0.95]">VAULT<br>OS 9<span class="inline-block w-[0.6ch] bg-tch14-green animate-tch14-blink motion-reduce:animate-none">&nbsp;</span></h2>
      <p class="text-[0.85rem] leading-[1.6] opacity-85">Cold-storage terminal for archival data. Phosphor-green display, zero network exposure.</p>
      <div class="flex justify-between text-[0.75rem] border-t border-dashed border-tch14-green/40 pt-3 opacity-70"><span>UPTIME 4096d</span><span>MEM 64K OK</span></div>
    </div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-2 pointer-events-none bg-[repeating-linear-gradient(0deg,rgb(0_0_0/0.25)_0_1px,transparent_1px_3px)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-x-0 -top-20 h-20 z-3 pointer-events-none opacity-0 transition-opacity duration-300 bg-linear-to-b from-transparent via-tch14-green/20 to-transparent group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:animate-tch14-sweep group-focus-visible:opacity-100 group-focus-visible:animate-tch14-sweep motion-reduce:animate-none motion-reduce:group-hover:animate-none"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-4 pointer-events-none bg-[radial-gradient(ellipse_at_center,transparent_60%,rgb(0_0_0/0.5))]"></div>
  </article>
</section>
```
## CSS
```css
@import "tailwindcss";

@keyframes tch14-sweep {
  0% {
    top: -80px;
  }

  100% {
    top: 100%;
  }
}

@keyframes tch14-blink {
  50% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@theme {
  --color-tch14-bg: #04110a;
  --color-tch14-bg: oklch(0.14 0.03 155);
  --color-tch14-card: #021006;
  --color-tch14-card: oklch(0.12 0.03 155);
  --color-tch14-green: #38ff8e;
  --color-tch14-green: oklch(0.88 0.21 152);
  --font-tch14-mono: 'Share Tech Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
  --font-tch14-display: 'VT323', ui-monospace, monospace;
  --animate-tch14-sweep: tch14-sweep 2s linear infinite;
  --animate-tch14-blink: tch14-blink 1s steps(1) infinite;
}

.tch-14 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}
```

How this works

Four overlays, four jobs. Scanlines (static texture), beam (the moving refresh line), vignette (the tube's curved falloff), and the content layer that sits under all of them. Each is an absolutely positioned div with pointer-events-none, so the stack is inert.

The beam animates top on purpose. It is the one place in this collection where a layout property is animated instead of a transform — an 80px absolutely positioned strip inside an overflow-hidden card costs nothing to relayout, and animating top from -80px to 100% is the clearest expression of the sweep.

The cursor is a styled span. A 0.6ch-wide green block with animate-tch14-blink on a steps(1) curve — on, off, nothing between.

Make it yours

  • Scanline density is the repeat unit: 0_1px,transparent_1px_3px is fine phosphor; widen to 6px for blocky retro.
  • Beam speed and height pair — a taller beam wants a slower sweep or it reads as a flash.
  • Retint the phosphor from --color-tch14-green; amber reads as an older terminal.

Gotchas — read before shipping

  • Make the scanline gradient's repeat unit and any scroll distance match exactly, or the loop shows a seam every cycle.
  • All overlays need pointer-events-none. A full-bleed vignette that eats clicks is a genuinely confusing bug.
  • motion-reduce: freezes the beam and the cursor but keeps the scanlines — the texture is the identity, the motion is the flourish.
  • On OLED the scanlines disappear below ~0.2 opacity; test peak visibility rather than trusting the value.

Browser support

ChromeSafariFirefoxEdge
111+16.4+128+111+

Repeating gradients, keyframes and steps() timing are universally supported; the floor is Tailwind v4's generated sheet.

Techniques used in this demo

Utilitiesfirst-class utility or variant

box-shadowtw ↗prefers-reduced-motiontw ↗

Arbitraryneeds bracket syntax

repeating linear gradienttw ↗

Plain CSSno Tailwind surface

@keyframestw ↗

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