Onclick CSS button effect

Question

I\'m creating a CSS button and I\'m trying to make an onclick effect: when the user clicks on the button it would push down the button text by 1px. My problem here is that it\'s

Answer 1

JS provides the tools to do this the right way. Try the demo snippet.

var doc = document;
var buttons = doc.getElementsByTagName('button');
var button = buttons[0];

button.addEventListener("mouseover", function(){
  this.classList.add('mouse-over');
});

button.addEventListener("mouseout", function(){
  this.classList.remove('mouse-over');
});

button.addEventListener("mousedown", function(){
  this.classList.add('mouse-down');
});

button.addEventListener("mouseup", function(){
  this.classList.remove('mouse-down');
  alert('Button Clicked!');
});

//this is unrelated to button styling.  It centers the button.
var box = doc.getElementById('box');
var boxHeight = window.innerHeight;
box.style.height = boxHeight + 'px'; 

button{
  text-transform: uppercase;
  background-color:rgba(66, 66, 66,0.3);
  border:none;
  font-size:4em;
  color:white;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 10px 5px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.33);
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 10px 5px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.33);
  box-shadow: 0px 10px 5px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.33);
}
button:focus {
  outline:0;
}
.mouse-over{
  background-color:rgba(66, 66, 66,0.34);
}
.mouse-down{
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 6px 5px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.52);
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 6px 5px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.52);
  box-shadow: 0px 6px 5px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.52);                 
}

/* unrelated to button styling */
#box {
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: row nowrap ;
  justify-content: center;
  align-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  width:100%;
}

button {
  order:1;
  flex: 0 1 auto;
  align-self: auto;
  min-width: 0;
  min-height: auto;
}            


    

  
    
    
  

  
    

      
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