Practical Developer Mini-Project #11
Cyberpunk 2077 Glitch FX
How To Build Cyberpunk 2077 Glitch Text (Step-by-Step)
Master CSS clip-path slicing, pseudo-element RGB channel separation, and high-frequency displacement keyframe physics.
Progress: Step 1 of 520% Completed
Step 1: HTML Data Attribute Setup
Structuring text with data-text attribute for CSS duplicate rendering.
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CYBERPUNK 2077
Step 1 Live Inspection
Base text with data-text attribute initialized on dark canvas.
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/* Step 1: Dark Stage & Neon Base */
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body {
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background: #08090c;
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display: flex;
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justify-content: center;
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align-items: center;
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min-height: 100vh;
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margin: 0;
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font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;
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}
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.glitch {
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color: #ffffff;
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font-size: 48px;
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font-weight: 900;
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position: relative;
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letter-spacing: 4px;
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}
Step 1 Technical Breakdown & Concepts
Understanding CSS pseudo-elements, polygon clipping, and glitch physics.
Key Technical Details
- ›The data-text attribute holds the string that CSS pseudo-elements will duplicate.
- ›attr(data-text) allows CSS content to read HTML text dynamically.
- ›Sets up high-contrast dark cyberpunk background.
Important Takeaway
Data attributes eliminate duplicate HTML DOM nodes for glitch layers.