Hover lift card

Card with hover lift animation. Floats up on hover, settles on release.

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About this block

A content card with an image, a heading, a short description, and a Learn more link. When someone moves their mouse over it, the card rises a few pixels and its shadow deepens, which tells them it's something they can interact with. It's a single card you can duplicate into a grid.

When to use it

  • In a grid of services, features, case studies, or blog posts.
  • When you want cards to feel clickable without adding loud borders or colours.
  • On a portfolio or team page where each card leads to more detail.

What's inside

  • A rounded card on your theme's light surface colour with a soft shadow.
  • An image across the top, cropped to 192px tall.
  • An h3 heading, a muted description, and a Learn more Link in your primary colour.
  • A lift-on-hover animation that moves the card up 6px, with the shadow growing at the same time.
  • A maximum width of 384px, so it sits neatly in a two-, three-, or four-column grid.

How to customize it

  • Swap the image and write alt text that describes it.
  • Change the heading and description, and point the Learn more link at the matching page.
  • Duplicate the card and place the copies inside a Container set to a grid to build a row.
  • Pick a different hover effect in the animation settings, like grow or glow, if lift doesn't suit your style.

Questions

Does the hover effect work on phones?
Phones have no hover, so the card just shows in its resting state. Nothing is hidden behind the hover, so no content is lost.
Can the whole card be clickable?
The Learn more link is the click target. To make the whole card a link, add a link action to the card itself and turn the Learn more line into plain text.
Will the animation hurt page speed?
No. It's a small CSS transition on the card's position and shadow, with no script and no extra download.

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