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Aneeqa Khan
Aneeqa Khan

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Expanding cards with CSS

I saw a brilliant course by @florinpop17 on YouTube and wanted to try some projects myself.

Overview

Create a cards of pictures and expand that card on hover.

Implementation

I started by placing five pictures in one section.



  <section>
    <img src="assets/hawai.webp" />
    <img src="assets/bamboo-forest.webp" />
    <img src="assets/cappadocia.webp" />
    <img src="assets/Lake-Croatia.webp" />
    <img src="assets/mount-fuji.webp" />
  </section>


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and styled it



    section {
      display: flex;
      flex-direction: row;
    }
    img {
      width: 50px;
      height: 340px;
      object-fit: cover;
      border-radius: 40px;
      margin-right: 10px;
      cursor: pointer;
    }


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Images will begin showing just like this
img-cards

Now I added :hover selector with width property and increased the card width. I have also added a transition property to make it smooth.



  img {
    ...
    transition: width 0.5s ease-in-out;
  }
  img:hover {
    width: 400px;
  }


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and that's it! You get very pleasing expanding cards.


Thank you for reading!
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Michael Tharrington

These look so cool! Lovin' this style. 🙌

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Aneeqa Khan

Thank you!

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amiceli

Simple and beautiful, well done ;)

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Aneeqa Khan

Thank you!