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necolas/css3-facebook-buttons
Simple CSS to recreate the appearance of Facebook's buttons and toolbars.
A single CSS file that recreates Facebook's circa-2011 button styles using CSS3 gradients, box shadows, and a sprite sheet for icons. It's a historical artifact — the badge in the README says unmaintained, the last commit was 2020, and Facebook's UI has long moved on. Anyone who actually wants this look today has made an unusual choice.
- Tiny footprint — one CSS file and one PNG sprite, no build step, no dependencies, drops into anything
- Decent browser support matrix for its era, including IE 6+ fallbacks without breaking the layout
- Flexible markup: works on anchors, buttons, and inputs equally, and the group/toolbar composability is clean
- Explicitly unmaintained and frozen in time — the Facebook aesthetic it mimics no longer matches Facebook itself
- Uses a PNG sprite for icons instead of SVG or an icon font, so scaling and dark mode are immediate problems
- No accessibility consideration — no focus styles documented, no ARIA guidance, no mention of high-contrast or forced-colors
- 571 stars is entirely nostalgia; there is no active community and no path forward if you hit a bug