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Mastering CSS Animation

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Web Animation can be used to attract attention, engage people better, and communicate more clearly and effectively.
It can engage and hold people's attention longer than just a static web page.


The @keyframes rule

When you specify CSS styles inside the @keyframes rule, the animation will gradually change form the current style to the new style at certain times.

The animation is specified by using two types keywords: from - to and 0% - 100%.

NOTE: By using per cent, you can add as many style changes as you like, For Example On(0%,20%,40%,80% and 100%).


Example

To get an animation to work, you must bind the animation to an element.

.content{ 
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  color: orange;
  animation-name: false;
  animation-duration: 0.3s;
 }

 @keyframes fade {
   from{ opacity: 0; }
   to{ opacity: 1; }
  }
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If the animation-duration property is not specified, no animation will occur, because the default value is 0s.

Delay an Animation

The animation-delay property specifies a delay for the start of an animation

Iteration an Animation

The animation-iteration-count property specifies the number of times an animation should run.


Direction an Animation

The animation-direction property specifies whether an animation should be played forwards, backwards or in alternate cycles.

The animation-direction property can have the following:

  • normal - default
  • reverse - The animation is played in reverse direction(backwards)
  • alternate - The animation is played forwards first, then backwards
  • alternate-reverse - The animation is played backwards first, then forwards

Specify the speed curve of the Animation

The animation-timing-function property specifies the speed curve of the animation.

The animation-timing-function property can have the following values:

  • ease - Slow start, then fast, then end slowly (default)
  • linear - Same speed from start to end
  • ease-in - slow start
  • ease-out - Slow end
  • ease-in-out - Slow start and end
  • cubicbezier(n,n,n,n) - Lets you define your own values in a cubic-bezier function.

Specify the fill-mode for an animation

Animation does not affect an element before the first keyframe is played or after the last keyframe is played. The animation-fill-mode property is used to override this behaviour.

The animation-fill-mode property specifies a style for the target element when the animation is not playing (before it starts after it ends, or both)

  • none - Animation will not apply any styles
  • forwards - The element will retain the style values that are set by the last keyframe
  • backwards - The element will retain style values that are set by the first keyframe
  • both - Retain style from first and last both.

Animation shorthand property

.content{
   width: 100px;
   height: 100px;
   color: orange;
   /*animation: name duration timing-function delay iteration-count direction filll-mode*/
   animation: fade 0.3s ease 1s 1 reverse forwards; 
 }
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Ashutosh Mishra

Is that all in animation?