Get tired searching animations for your menu items and links? Search no more! Here is a list of more than 100 different animations. From the simple one to the more complex one, you will for sure find what you want.
No SVG, No JS, No extra tag, No pseudo element, No keyframes ... All of them are done using backgrounds, transition and only one element. Simply add a class and enjoy.
I am not relying on pseudo element so you can easily use them with elements like input (where we cannot have pseudo element).
In order to understand the logic of each animation, I highly recommend my previous article about background-position
Table of content
- The Basic
- The Continuous
- The Double
- The Two Steps
- The Unexpected
- The Rounded
- The Fading
- The Infinite
- The All Sides
- The Thick
- The Sliding
- The Fancy
- The Inverted
- The 3D
The Basic
The Continuous
The Double
The Two Steps
The Unexpected
The Rounded
The Fading
The Infinite
Keep the hover for too long here.
The All Sides
The Thick
The Sliding
The below requires us to know the width of the element so it's more suitable for monospace fonts where we can use the ch unit
The Fancy
(2) and (5) use some hardcoded values that need to be adjusted based on the element width
The Inverted
The below doesn't work on Firefox due to a known bug
The 3D
Warning: the below uses some advanced CSS but I considered CSS variables to make it easy to control
That's it!
Tell me what do you think and which one is your favorite. 👇
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Top comments (123)
Amazing collection! I used the "Basic 3" on a recent project, but had a CSS validation error, that boiled down to
linear-gradient(currentColor 0 0).Is that a short way of writing
linear-gradient(to bottom, currentColor 0 0, currentColor 100% 0)?And, as
to bottomis default, that can be omitted I guess?It's the short way of writing
linear-gradient(currentColor,currentColor). The direction and the color stops aren't important since a gradient between two same colors will always give that color. I am defining two colors stop for it (0and0) to write the color only once inside the gradient.The syntax I am using is a bit uncommon but it's valid. The CSS validator is never up to date anyway.
I wrote a recent article about this if you want: css-tricks.com/cool-hover-effects-...
Cool, didn’t know that syntax!
You are really hardworking @afif 👍
thanks :)
This is incredible!
Awesome collection - bookmarked! I am sure I'll be using this!
Awesome! 🔥
Wow incredible job Temani!!
I think I'll try out some of these in apps I'm developing on at work soon! Probably will try or at least consider these for future public facing sites I work on in the future as well.
My favorite are the 3D and Fancy ones at the bottom but I think for basic Db Web Apps I might use "The Basic" or "The All Sides" as I feel they provide just enough visual effects for a user to think "that's nice" but not distract from the site or task at hand.
I have released more collections if you are intrested :) dev.to/afif/series/12016
Great job! These are awesome, your CSS skills and design are incredible!
Great job on putting this collection together!
I'm rather partial to The Double and The 3D :)
I have released more collections if you are intrested :) dev.to/afif/series/12016
I'm loving it!
There are some people who can use every single animation as a different post for a series actually and then there's this guy.
Great minds
thanks :) will probably create more posts like this in the future ;)
Tested just now on Mac OS with Firefox 86.0.1, and it works well ;)
Otherwise, Thanks a lot for the ideas... I just like the inverted :D
good, probably the bug occur only on Windows OS then.
It is really impressive. Could you make youtube tutorials explaining the technique you use to achieve these effects? I would like to learn.
Will think about this in the future. I never made tutorial videos but would be good to start doing it ;). In the meantime, If you have a question or you need a clarification about a particular effect I can explain you via comment
I have released more collections if you are intrested :) dev.to/afif/series/12016