Pure CSS Popup Window with Close Button

A few months back, we created a pure CSS modal popup that reveals on button click. Today, we are going to create a visually same popup window with a close button using pure CSS with different and easy coding techniques. Unlike the previous popup window, it doesn’t rely on the hash link technique to reveal the popup box.

The coding concept for this popup window is that we’ll use HTML checkbox input in order to reveal it on checked value. Similarly, when a user clicks the close button, the checkbox will be unchecked and the popup window will be closed.

You can browse the demo page to check the final output of this popup window before getting started with the coding. OK! let’s get started with coding without wasting your valuable time.

The Markup for Pure CSS Popup Window

First of all, create a div element with a class name “pop” and place another div element with the class name “modal” inside it. Create a checkbox input just before the modal and build a label tag (associated with checkbox) that will be used to trigger the popup window. Wrap your modal contents inside the “modal__inner” div.  The complete HTML structure for the popup modal looks like below:

<div class="pop">
    <p><center><label for="3" class="open">Open Poup!</label> to open the pure CSS popup window.</center></p>
    <input type="checkbox" id="3" />
    <div class="modal">
      <div class="modal__inner">
          <p>Place here your popup content.</p>
        <label class="btn-close" for="3">X</label>
      </div>
    </div>
</div>

You can place any HTML element inside the “modal__inner” container that will display in the popup window. Similarly, you can also add the font icon inside the close button (that is X) or use × HTML entity for the cross (×) symbol.

The CSS Styles

In CSS, define the styles for the outer of the popup window (.pop selector). Define its position as absolute and set it 0 to the top, left, right and bottom in order to align it to the center of the page. Likewise, keep its margin to auto and define its padding value according to your needs.

.pop {
  position: absolute;
  width: 50%;
  margin: auto;
  padding: 20px;
  height: 50%;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
}
@media (max-width: 640px) {
  .pop {
    position: relative;
    width: 100%;
  }
}

After that, style the dim background layer and keep its visibility hidden in order to reveal it on the checkbox checked. To make a fade-in effect (when popup display), keep its opacity to 0 and define the transition property for opacity. Similarly, define the background color as rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5).

.pop .modal {
  z-index: 2;
  opacity: 0;
  visibility: hidden;
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  -webkit-transition: opacity 500ms ease-in-out;
  transition: opacity 500ms ease-in-out;
}

The ".modal__inner" selector is the actual element that will be displayed as a modal popup. Keep its position to the absolute, set background color (according to your choice), define padding property and other necessary styles. To make it responsive, use the CSS media queries and define its width 100% for mobile devices. The (max-width: 640px) is ideal for maximum width of a mobile screen.

.pop .modal__inner {
  -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%) scale(0.75);
          transform: translate(-50%, -50%) scale(0.75);
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  width: 50%;
  background: white;
  padding: 30px;
  position: absolute;
  color: black;
}
@media (max-width: 640px) {
  .pop .modal__inner {
    width: 100%;
  }
}

Now, define the CSS styles for the close button. Set its color, text-align, and other necessary properties if you want to customize it.

.btn-close{
    color: #fff;
    text-align: center;
}
.pop label {
  display: inline-block;
  cursor: pointer;
}
.pop label.open {
  color: turquoise;
  -webkit-transition: color 200ms ease-in-out;
  transition: color 200ms ease-in-out;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
.pop label.open:hover {
  color: paleturquoise;
}

At last, hide the checkbox input and make it visible using CSS checked pseudo-selector. Similarly, add the popup effect using CSS transform property mentioned in the below code:

.pop input {
  display: none;
}
.pop input:checked + .modal {
  opacity: 1;
  visibility: visible;
}
.pop input:checked + .modal .modal__inner {
  -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%) scale(1);
          transform: translate(-50%, -50%) scale(1);
  -webkit-transition: all 200ms ease-in-out;
  transition: all 200ms ease-in-out;
}
.pop input:checked + .modal .modal__inner p {
  font-size: 1.25rem;
  line-height: 125%;
}
.pop input:checked + .modal label {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  height: 30px;
  width: 30px;
  background: #666666;
  -webkit-transition: all 200ms ease-in-out;
  transition: all 200ms ease-in-out;
}
.pop input:checked + .modal label:hover {
  background: #333333;
}

That’s all! I hope now you are able to create a pure CSS popup window with a close button. If you have any questions or suggestion let me know by comment below.