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Temani Afif
Temani Afif

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I made 100 more CSS loaders for your next project

not 100, not 200 but 300! Yes, a new collection and a total of 300 CSS loaders.

This time, I am going to rely on more elements to create the loaders ... No, I am joking šŸ˜œ, still only one <div> per loader, nothing more!

Let's go!


Also available online šŸ‘‡

css-loaders.com


Table of content


The Classic III

The Dots III

The Hypnotic II

The Bars II

The Spinner III

The last spinner is detailed in a Stack Overflow answer I gave

The Dots vs The Bars

They start as friends but ...

To be continued ...

The Nature

The Time

The Shapes III

The Hungry

The Discord

Someone challenged me so I had to do it.

It's not a perfect replicate but close enough šŸ˜

The Ben

A last one for the fun. I added a click handler to avoid the spoils. Click and wait until the end

A small joke to remind you that even if you use a loader, your website need to be fast šŸ˜‰ and yes Ben is done with pure CSS, I am not using any image. I know it's crazy...


That's it!

I hope you enjoyed this 3rd collection. If you want more don't forget to ā¤šŸ¦„! If you have some funny or crazy ideas of loaders you want me to do, leave a comment šŸ‘‡

I don't do only loaders if you want more fun:

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Fantastic as always - quick heads up for everyone dont try and view the CSS for ā€œBenā€ on your phone - big crash if you do šŸ˜œšŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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Temani Afif

let's see how many Smartphone I will break šŸ˜

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GrahamTheDev

It is no wonder it crashed my phone, it took about 5 seconds to open on my PC! (while inline, works fine if you open as external pen)

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Temani Afif

maybe it's time to change your 2000's PC šŸ˜‹

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GrahamTheDev

What you think anyone can buy a new PC at the moment? You do know there is a CPU shortage! šŸ¤£

It is that bad that to spec a PC to the same spec as my current one would cost me Ā£500 more than I paid for it....how stupid is that?

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Brett Stevenson

It didn't totally crash my phone, but I did have to close and reopen my browser to leave this comment...
Please don't tell me not to try jumping off a bridge next šŸ˜‚

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Habdul Hazeez

It works fine in Chrome 90 for Android, and my device did not crash as I type this.

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GrahamTheDev

Of course it works in Android, itā€™s only iOS and itā€™s crappy safari browser that canā€™t handle anything more complicated than 2+2 - half of the loaders donā€™t work either on iOS as they donā€™t support the CSS features.

Hence why iOS is my work phone and Android for personal!

Oh and the speed issue on PC was because I had Illustrator saving a massive file...so that is embarrassing šŸ˜‚

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Oli

Wow.... Now I want to build a slow site to take advantage of some of these loaders. They are amazing! Not only in quality, but in quantity. How did you think of all these?

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jj_ranalli • Edited

This is amazing!! Ever thought of making a Glitchy collection?

I'm thinking of Cyberpunk-ish glitch effects, but anything glitchy would be cool imo

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Temani Afif

Yes I am planning some glitch effect in the next collection ;) stay tuned! don't forget to follow to get notified when it will be released

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jj_ranalli

Of course! One more thing comes to mind, ever thought of using Tailwindcss color classes to style your loaders? I ask this as I made a package (Nightwind) that automatically inverts them to create a dark theme. So in this case, you'd have dark-themed loaders for any TailwindCSS website

Not sure if this is something you'd be interested in, but I thought of telling you in case you'd like to experiment with it. (Feel free to reach out to discuss this! Happy to help out if I can)

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Temani Afif

not really, I am not a Tailwind fan. IMO, it's one of the worst Framework with his expensive CSS and classes that let people do simple things with complex code. You will notice that for the 1-color loaders I made there is always one value of color to change that will affect the whole loader so we don't really need tailwind for that, we can easily switch the color using an extra class or an inline CSS.

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jj_ranalli

I think tailwind has improved a lot over time, but I also understand what you mean. Personally I think itā€™s a very subjective matter as there are good points that can be made on both sides.

Anyway keep up the great work! Your loaders are really cool āœØ

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Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

Petition to make The Ben the actual loader for Dev.to, lol. @ben

(Love the food and the hourglass, by the way!)

Idea: Create a site where you demo all of these at once.

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Temani Afif

I like the idea of the demo website ;) will plan this shortly

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Britanney Bernard

Thank you so much! I tried to add it on my site, it still doesn't work. as example. How can I solve it? Do you have any contacts? Any ideas, pals?

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Temani Afif

which one did you add? and how I can see it in the code?

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Peter

Temani an another amazing set! How did you get so good at CSS, I'd love to read what you did to improve.

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Temani Afif

It's a lot of practise (and a lot of time on Stack Overflow). I invite you to start with these two articles:
dev.to/afif/all-you-need-to-know-a...
dev.to/afif/advanced-css-animation...
Most of what I am doing rely on background and animation and I am detailing a lot of stuff there.

I will be writing more in the future for sure.

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Peter

Awesome thanks for the resources. They are going on todayā€™s reading list.

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Jason C. McDonald

Your loaders are entertaining in and of themselves. Makes me wish my sites were slower. ;)

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spO0q

first!

arf no ^^

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Temani Afif

yes technically the first ;) I can confirm from the notification :p

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Temani Afif

stop spamming the site with such comment. This behavior can get you a ban

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