It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I’ve been working on a website in which large pictures are displayed to the user. Instead of creating a typical lightbox effect (a zoom-in animation with a black overlay) for these large pictures, I decided to try and make something more interactive and fun. I ended up coding an image container that tilts as the user moves the mouse cursor above it.… Read article
I've been playing with CSS transforms for over five years and one thing that has always bugged me was that I couldn't animate the components of a transform chain individually. This article is going to explain the problem, the old workaround, the new magic Houdini solution and, finally, will offer you a feast of eye candy through better looking examples than those used to illustrate concepts.… Read article
When I saw the original article on how to recreate this animation, my first thought was that it could all be simplified with the use of preprocessors and especialy CSS variables. So let's dive into it and see how!… Read article
Dan Wilson documents a classic annoyance with transforms:
button {
transform: translateY(-150%);
}
button:hover {
/* will (perhaps unintentionally) override the original translate */
transform: scale(.8);
}The native (and WET) solution is list the original transform again:
button:hover {
transform: translateY(-150%) scale(.8);
}Dan's trick is to use custom properties instead. Set them all on the element right up front, then re-set them the :hover state:
:root {
--tx: 150%;
--scale: 1;
}
button {
transform:
translateY(var(--tx))
scale(var(--scale));
}
The following is a guest post by Dylan Winn-Brown, who shows us a performant way to accomplish this design effect.
Whilst working on a client’s website recently, I was asked to replicate an effect like this.
Containers with background images which zoom within their container on hover, revealing more information.… Read article