Build your own embeddable countdown timer widget for any website. Enter your event name, target date and time, choose a display style, and customize background color, text color, and border settings. Get a ready-to-copy HTML embed code showing days, hours, minutes, and seconds remaining until your event.
Days Remaining
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Hours
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Minutes
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Seconds
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Total Seconds Until Event
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A countdown timer embed widget is a small piece of HTML/JavaScript code you paste into your website's source code. It displays a live ticking countdown showing days, hours, minutes, and seconds until a specific date and time. It updates in real time in the visitor's browser without any server-side code required.
Countdown timers create urgency and anticipation, which can significantly boost conversion rates for product launches, sales, events, and promotions. Studies show that visible deadlines encourage visitors to take action sooner rather than later. They're also useful for keeping teams and communities focused on upcoming milestones.
Most major site builders support HTML embeds, including WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Tumblr, Blogger, and Weebly. Simply look for an 'HTML block', 'Embed block', or 'Custom Code' section in your page editor and paste the generated code there.
Yes — when you enable the 'Responsive' option, the widget automatically adjusts its width to fit any screen size, including phones and tablets. The layout scales fluidly so it looks great on all devices without any extra configuration.
By default, the timer stops at zero and displays all zeros. Some implementations can be configured to show a custom message or redirect users to another page. You can modify the generated embed code to add this behavior with a small JavaScript adjustment.
Absolutely. This generator lets you choose your background color, digit/text color, and border color before generating the code. You can also pick from multiple visual styles — Flip, Columns, Circles, and Minimal — to match your website's design. Advanced users can further tweak the CSS in the embed code directly.
Yes, the generated HTML/JavaScript embed code is free to use on any website, including commercial sites and online stores. There are no licensing fees or attribution requirements for standard usage.
The countdown calculates the difference between the visitor's local browser time and your specified target date and time. If you need the timer to count down to a fixed moment in a specific time zone (e.g. midnight EST), you should set your target time accounting for that offset. Future versions may include explicit time zone selection.