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Glowing Effect
curatedfreeaceternity/glowing-effect
A border glowing effect that adapts to any container or card, as seen on Cursor's website.
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npx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/glowing-effectnpm deps: lucide-react
Our notes
Cursor-style border glow that follows the pointer. Works on any card.- Source
- Aceternity UI
- Kind
- component
- Categories
- bento, card
- Use as
- wrapper — wraps your existing element
- Applies to
- cardbentobutton
- Motion
- on cursor, hover · subtle · motion · medium cost · ignores reduced motion
- Tags
- highlight
- Licence
- Free for unlimited personal & commercial projects; no redistributing as a competing library. Pro/All-Access is a one-time purchase.
- Live demo
- ui.aceternity.com
- Docs
- ui.aceternity.com
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