Gradient Footer
A drop-in footer with a soft glow rising off the bottom edge and a giant brand name that scales to fill the width no matter how long it is. The links get a slide-through underline on hover and the whole thing fades up as you scroll to it.
One of 71 GSAP components in React, Vue and HTML.
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How it's built.
The big brand name across the bottom is the part I fussed over. I wanted it to fill the whole width no matter what word you drop in, so instead of picking a font size it measures the word and scales it to sit edge to edge - a short name and a long one both stretch to the full span. Then the letters are set to pick up the light from the glow behind them, so they're not a flat block of colour, they take on the gradient where they overlap it.
The glow itself is the other bit worth mentioning. It's a shallow arch that hugs the bottom edge, reaches into both corners and lifts higher in the middle, and it's all done with layered gradients - no canvas, no WebGL. That's deliberate: a footer shouldn't spin up a render context just to sit there, so it stays cheap and light, drifts slowly on its own and reacts a little as you scroll into it.
After that it's yours. Change the brand name and it refits itself, swap in your own links, and raise or lower how tall the arch climbs in the centre to make the glow soft and low or big and dramatic. On a phone the links fold down to a tidy grid and the whole thing still holds.
What you'll need.
Install
- GSAP
- ScrollTrigger
- SplitText
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Frequently asked
- Does Gradient Footer work with React and Vue?
- Gradient Footer ships as React (Next.js included), Vue 3 (Nuxt included), plain HTML/CSS/JS - the same animation in each format. The React version uses the official useGSAP hook with cleanup handled; the Vue version is a real single-file component with <script setup>.
- Do I need GSAP to use Gradient Footer?
- Yes. Gradient Footer is built on GSAP directly, and GSAP has been 100% free for commercial use, including every plugin, since version 3.13. The component page lists exactly what to install.
- Can I customize Gradient Footer without editing code?
- Gradient Footer exposes 2 tunable controls in the Customize panel on this page - drag the values, watch the live preview respond, and the code you copy carries your exact settings.
- Is Gradient Footer free?
- Gradient Footer is part of the Annnimate Library, a paid subscription (from EUR 249/year). The live preview and customization run free on this page; the paste-ready code is for members.
- Can I use Gradient Footer in client projects?
- Yes. The Annnimate license covers commercial and client work - ship Gradient Footer on as many projects as you build, with no attribution required.
- Does Gradient Footer respect prefers-reduced-motion?
- Yes. Every Annnimate component handles prefers-reduced-motion via gsap.matchMedia, so users who opt out of motion get an effectively instant, readable state.
