Animation

Did you know you can use CSS to make things move around? You’ll learn how on this card!

  • Before you get started, make sure you have a picture on your website with an id and a corresponding CSS block which sets the width to 100px. I’m going with the picture of Tito from before, and my CSS block looks like this:
#titoPicture {
    border-radius: 100%;
    width: 100px;
}
  • Go to the bottom of your CSS file and add the following code:
@keyframes myFirstAnimation {
    from {
        width: 100px;
    }
    to {
        width: 300px;
    }
}

This code creates an animation called myFirstAnimation that you can add to any element on your website. What do you think it will do?

  • Find your CSS rules for the picture and add the following three properties:
animation-name: myFirstAnimation;
animation-duration: 2s;
animation-iteration-count: 1;

  • Now watch what happens on your web page! Try different values for animation-iteration-count to see what it does.

  • Let’s try another animation! Add the following code to the end of your CSS file:

@keyframes rainbowGlow {
    0% {
        color: #FFD700;
    }
    50% {
        color: #663399;
    }
    100% {
        color: #FFD700;
    }
}
  • Now find the #myCoolText CSS rules from earlier and add in the animation code:
#myCoolText {
    color: #003366;
    border: 2px ridge #ccffff;
    padding: 15px;
    text-align: center;
    animation-name: rainbowGlow;
    animation-duration: 1.5s;
    animation-iteration-count: 1;
}

When you use percentage values instead of from and to, you’re able to set in-between values as well as just start and end values. You can set as many in-between values as you like using different percentage values from 0 all the way up to 100.

  • Change the value of animation-iteration-count to infinite. See if you can guess what will happen before you test it!

  • Try out different values for animation-duration to speed up or slow down your animation.

  • One final trick! Add this animation code:

@keyframes slide {
    0% {
        background-position-x: 0;
    }
    100% {
        background-position-x: 600vw;
    }
}
  • Now find the #frontPage CSS rules you wrote earlier and change them to:
#frontPage {
    background: repeating-linear-gradient(-45deg, red 0%, yellow 7.14%, lime 14.28%, cyan 21.42%, cyan 28.56%, blue 35.7%, magenta 42.84%, red 50%);
    background-size: 600vw 600vw;
    animation: slide 10s infinite linear forwards;
}

Don’t worry about understanding all of the code above… just sit back and enjoy!!

To learn about more things you can do with animation, visit this web page. Have fun!

On the next card you’ll learn how to make cool things happen when you hover the mouse cursor over things!

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