Articles Tagged css animation

The design for Netflix’s browse page has remained pretty similar for a few years now. One mainstay component is the preview slider that allows users to scroll through content and hover on items to see a preview.

One unique characteristic of the UI is its hover behavior. When a show preview expands on hover, the cards next to it are pushed outward so that they don’t overlap. … Read article “How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS”

Here’s a fun one. How might we create a set of those cool Matryoshka dolls where they nest inside one another… but in CSS?

I toyed with this idea in my head for a little while. Then, I saw a tweet from CSS-Tricks and the article image had the dolls. I took that as a sign! It was time to put fingers to the keyboard.

Our goal here is to make these fun and interactive, where we can click on … Read article “Animated Matryoshka Dolls in CSS”

Earlier this year, I came across this demo by Florin Pop, which makes a line go either over or under the letters of a single line heading. I thought this was a cool idea, but there were a few little things about the implementation I felt I could simplify and improve at the same time.… Read article “Weaving a Line Through Text in CSS”

You all know famous Pac-Man video game, right? The game is fun and building an animated Pac-Man character in HTML and CSS is just as fun! I’ll show you how to create one while leveraging the powers of the clip-path property.… Read article “Pac-Man… in CSS!”

Here’s the trick: by combining the Turkish letter “ı” and the period “.” we can create something that looks like the letter “i,” but is made from two separate elements. This opens us up to some fun options to style or animate the dot of the letter independently from the stalk. Worried about accessibility? Don’t worry, we’ll cover that the best way we know how.

Let’s look at how to create and style these separate “letters,” and find out when … Read article “The Trick to Animating the Dot on the Letter “i””

CSS allows you to create dynamic layouts and interfaces on the web, but as a language, it is static: once a value is set, it cannot be changed. The idea of randomness is off the table. Generating random numbers at runtime is the territory of JavaScript, not so much CSS. Or is it? If we factor in a little user interaction, we actually can generate some degree of randomness in CSS. Let’s take a look!… Read article “Are There Random Numbers in CSS?”

WordPress shipped the Block Editor (aka Gutenberg) back in version 5.0 and with it came a snazzy new post preview screen that shows the WordPress logo drawing itself while the preview loads.… Read article “Digging Into the Preview Loading Animation in WordPress”

Have you ever wondered how to customize CSS animations keyframes without using any preprocessor feature, like mixins? I keep reaching for preprocessors for this reason, but it would be so nice to drop yet one more dependency and go with vanilla CSS.

Well, I found a way to account for variations within a keyframe animation using nothing but CSS and it’s thanks to custom properties! Let’s learn a little more about how CSS keyframes work and how we … Read article “Using Custom Properties to Wrangle Variations in Keyframe Animations”

Let’s say you were gonna bounce an element all around a screen, sorta like an old school screensaver or Pong or something.

You’d probably be tracking the X location of the element, increasing or decreasing it in a time loop and — when the element reached the maximum or minimum value — it would reverse direction. Then do that same thing with the Y location and you’ve got the effect we’re after. Simple enough with some JavaScript and math. … Read article “Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS”

Animating elements, at its most basic, is fairly straightforward. Define the keyframes. Name the animation. Call it on an element.

But sometimes we need something a little more complex to get the right “feel” for the way things move. For example, a sound equalizer might use the same animation on each bar, but they are staggered to give the illusion of being animated independently.… Read article “Different Approaches for Creating a Staggered Animation”