10 CSS animation tips and tricks

CSS transitions and animations can be a lot of fun, and there are so many neat tips and tricks you can do with them!
🔗 Links
✅ The CSS challenge video: • I've been challenged t...
✅ More on prefers-reduced-motion: • 3 super small changes ...
✅ More information on @property on the MDN: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Different timing functions for different states
02:23 - The order of keyframe animations doesn’t matter
04:00 - Declaring multiple keyframes with one declaration
05:05 - Omiting 0% and 100%
06:10 - Animating transform and the individual transform properties
07:52 - Using negative animation delays
10:08 - prefers-reduced-motion
12:44 - Using the same animation multiple times within one declaration
15:05 - Using @property to animate custom properties
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  • @DampeS8N
    @DampeS8N Жыл бұрын

    An animation technique I don't often see is what I call The Poof. Very simple: transition to a big-ass blur, opacity to 0 and scale up. Add in a skew and a translation in a direction for extra flair. Looks like the element disappears in a puff of smoke. I'm sure you can think of situations where this would be appropriate and satisfying. The reverse is also pretty impressive.

  • @Brutakk

    @Brutakk

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanos animation

  • @ryanscheuer7491

    @ryanscheuer7491

    Жыл бұрын

    I love mixing in a transformY with this as well! Looks super clean & physical.

  • @Venistro

    @Venistro

    Жыл бұрын

    A codepen would be very nice :D

  • @user-zn6cv1jf8e

    @user-zn6cv1jf8e

    8 ай бұрын

    oh yess @@Venistro

  • @nikolitilden8224
    @nikolitilden8224 Жыл бұрын

    Your content is so freaking good man. Thank you for all the help you do for the community!

  • @johnKeysCloudSonics
    @johnKeysCloudSonics10 ай бұрын

    your passion for this is so evident. very inspiring stuff! thank you!

  • @gykonik
    @gykonik Жыл бұрын

    Awesome information in that video! Maybe you could consider doing some sort of series "How CSS works under the hood"? In previous videos ,ou mentioned some things like "CSS parses the selectors from right to left" and stuff that I didn't know before. Moreover, I think many of us have no clue how CSS really works, and just know how to use it. (And you could build upon that series by another series about optimization :D) Would love to see something like that! 😊

  • @RichardOles

    @RichardOles

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes. Got my vote. I’m relatively new to all this, and I’m amazed at what css can do. But there are so many css properties that appear similar, it’s difficult to keep straight. Like justify-content Vs justify-items etc. things like that. I need to create or find a kind map of what properties go with what css rules etc. even my vernacular might need a tweak. Hope I’m clear.

  • @Cipscis
    @Cipscis Жыл бұрын

    Another animation/transtion trick I find really useful is that the visibility property can be animated. This can be useful for accessibility, since if you're doing something like animating an element's height to or from 0, you should be making it visibility hidden when it's collapsed so the user can't do stuff like tab into the hidden area with their keyboard focus. Because the visibility property has discrete values, they will flip at the midpoint of a transition or animation. But with animations you can "fix" this by putting two keyframes at the same point, so that midpoint is also at that point. But you can set up an animation with the same visibility value at 0% and 100%, so once the animation is over it will fall back to the value set directly on an element. That way, when you're hiding an element you can set its visibility to hidden, but give it a "stayVisible" animation to delay that value changing until your other animation or transition is complete. Of course this is all easy to do with JavaScript, but it's nice to know you can do it all right in your CSS instead.

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    Love it 🔥

  • @MegaClockworkDoc
    @MegaClockworkDoc Жыл бұрын

    As usual, you exceed expectations. Thank you for putting this video together

  • @user-kn4oi9oh4i
    @user-kn4oi9oh4i6 ай бұрын

    Great advice from the CSS King! Thank you good sir.

  • @Citadelband530
    @Citadelband530 Жыл бұрын

    Just a quick thanks! Your videos and quick tips and tricks have helped me understand how css works in a practical everday environment❤🎉

  • @iranmine123
    @iranmine123 Жыл бұрын

    I really love the property idea, thats so nice like we can do lot of things with that, especially the gradient one Hope it gets added in all browsers

  • @aleksandr95
    @aleksandr95 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. As always very useful.

  • @kohelet910
    @kohelet910 Жыл бұрын

    I didn't know all of the tips you gave us :) ! Thanks 😀 I really like when you give tips and informations about accessibility.

  • @Technoph1le
    @Technoph1le Жыл бұрын

    8:30 If you want this in CSS, there's another solution as well. We can use custom properties to achieve the same result: ```html ``` ```css .dot { animation-delay: calc(50ms * var(--i)); } ``` Basically, you don't declare custom properties in CSS, but rather in HTML with "indexing". Also, less code in your CSS. 🙂

  • @Issvor

    @Issvor

    Жыл бұрын

    OnlineTutorials taught me this and I love this trick

  • @CharlesSmall
    @CharlesSmall Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video Kevin. you are a master.

  • Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! it was very interesting stuffs! thanks for that!

  • @czerskip
    @czerskip Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Let's mix the gradient backgrounds with animation in another episode 👏😁

  • @WakattA-
    @WakattA- Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video sir 😄

  • @RonDro67
    @RonDro67 Жыл бұрын

    WE LOVE YOU KEVIN! You've taught me so much the last several years! Thank you!

  • @canarymultimedia
    @canarymultimedia Жыл бұрын

    Didn't know about prefers-reduced-motion and that it even is important for (simple) smooth scrolling, very interesting

  • @alanbloom20
    @alanbloom20 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating concept about the transform rotate and the rotate counteracting each other…

  • @baljka17
    @baljka176 ай бұрын

    The last one is a gem 💎

  • @GR_BackingTracks
    @GR_BackingTracks Жыл бұрын

    Very cool! @property is above my level yet, but I'm definitely gonna work in some @keyframe animation right now...

  • @programingwithali2461
    @programingwithali2461 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video

  • @_chris_6786
    @_chris_6786 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @MellstroyMemeSUS
    @MellstroyMemeSUS Жыл бұрын

    great video Kevin

  • @priyansh7
    @priyansh7 Жыл бұрын

    Love you sir

  • @wlockuz4467
    @wlockuz4467 Жыл бұрын

    As someone who comes from the native mobile world its always mind blowing how simple and elegant the web animation API is.

  • @privuspriv
    @privuspriv Жыл бұрын

    thanks for this

  • @jfftck
    @jfftck Жыл бұрын

    I am looking forward to CSS counters supporting returning numerical values instead of strings so we can just incrementally add delay or have more complex list indentations where you can have a left margin that doesn’t indent and everything right of it does.

  • @warrenzang1675
    @warrenzang1675Ай бұрын

    The T-shirt tho👕 W bro

  • @nina2602ais
    @nina2602ais Жыл бұрын

    nice video! thank you so much for your great content. One question: in terms of SVG animation what do you think is better to use on a react-app project Gsap or lottie?

  • @nove1398
    @nove1398 Жыл бұрын

    Nice tips, the animation with only 50% really handy.

  • @BO-ny5mm
    @BO-ny5mm Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed video and will definitely use this tricks! Thank you Kevin

  • @outpost31737
    @outpost31737 Жыл бұрын

    Kev your bonce needs a trim I thought you were about to topple over at one point 😂 Sorry it's my insane sense of humour :) Great vid as always.

  • @MajidHashemi-rt8le
    @MajidHashemi-rt8le9 ай бұрын

    Thanks 😊

  • @rickardelimaa
    @rickardelimaa Жыл бұрын

    19:05 - this can also be achieved by animating the background position, having the gradient be 200% of the button width (going from red to blue back to red again) and then translate it's position -100%.

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup, I noticed when editing that it wasn't the best example, lol. But we can animate the colors to anything, change the angle of the gradient... it opens up so many doors (and of course, not only for gradients!)

  • @rickardelimaa

    @rickardelimaa

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KevinPowell Yeah, I'm looking forward to the day when properties are fully supported.

  • @wlockuz4467
    @wlockuz4467 Жыл бұрын

    19:08 Mind blown, this is a game changer!

  • @sudoscientist255
    @sudoscientist255 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Kevin, I've been doing a lot of reading into how to use custom @property . One thing I keep coming across that I'm not understanding is the use case for having an @property with `syntax: '

  • @insearchof9090
    @insearchof9090 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks CSS Pope.

  • @richardmhain
    @richardmhain Жыл бұрын

    Nice animations for games :) I guess -100ms animation-delay is like when u click it, it's like clicking it 100ms ago. Dots looks behaving that way starting at the top already when u click given that -value. Makes sense - back, + forward. Good 2c no JS for many effects. Great animations treats demo, maybe useful on projects someday. Thanks for holy week CSS treat - Cheers!

  • @guillermoemmanuelsanchezin1664
    @guillermoemmanuelsanchezin1664 Жыл бұрын

    I'm looking forward an animation series 😬😬

  • @sixerd2236
    @sixerd2236 Жыл бұрын

    Hey some minor feedback on your audio. You should throw your audio into an EQ plugin or app and tune down the lower frequencies a bit. The bass is a little loud so when turning up the volume to hear you better my system is punching a little hard for some vocals (which my system is equalized to produce music so it's pretty flat). Great video and good information!

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the feedback! Audio is a bit of a black art to me, but I can totally fix that :D (EDIT: might be a few weeks until you see a difference since many things are at a certain point in production already, but I'll make sure to adjust!)

  • @reactivicky
    @reactivicky Жыл бұрын

    We want hair tutorial

  • @fullstackprojects5615
    @fullstackprojects56154 ай бұрын

    Hey Kevin, Thanks for this. I was wondering how is you button centered in page? I was thinking there will be some classes you might have attached to button I don't see anyone. Have you added flex to button's parent container and then justify content center and align items centre? Just curious

  • @aswin.a7539
    @aswin.a7539 Жыл бұрын

    i'll put a comment before watching, this video is going to be cool as always.

  • @sreeharipv486
    @sreeharipv486 Жыл бұрын

    Can we register custom properties in vanilla css by using @property method ??

  • @timgrei1730
    @timgrei173011 ай бұрын

    You could do the n-th child delay in vanilla CSS with counters, right?

  • @amit_sheen
    @amit_sheen Жыл бұрын

    Another great video, as usual, and I'm glad I had a small part in it. ☺ These are some great tips, and if anyone wants to go a little deeper into the negative delay thing, I have a part in one of my lectures where I tried to explain it in a more visual way. Feel free to take a look: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYyclaeGoMSydtI.html

  • @lessons3141
    @lessons3141 Жыл бұрын

    This last tip about hovering gradient was amazing, is it crossbrowser solution?

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    Safari has just added support, but no idea on where Firefox is with this at the moment :\

  • @itsfake8149
    @itsfake8149 Жыл бұрын

    Please cover the Gsap Library is possible, it will be very useful.

  • @youcefg9760
    @youcefg9760 Жыл бұрын

    What's the theme you're using to have that kinda of effect on VSCode's open tabs?

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm using Atom One Dark

  • @youcefg9760

    @youcefg9760

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KevinPowell Thanks man, keep up the good work, love your content.

  • @samarthnagar1516
    @samarthnagar1516 Жыл бұрын

    do you use tailwind what are your views on it

  • @MrSmellyPotato
    @MrSmellyPotato Жыл бұрын

    is there any way I can polyfill so that I can use @property in safari or other browsers that does not support that?

  • @Killyspudful

    @Killyspudful

    Жыл бұрын

    Safari's going to support it very soon, but there's no way to polyfill it in CSS.

  • @danko5678
    @danko56788 ай бұрын

    I didn't remember that I had animation turned off in the system, probably did it for optimization. I don't agree that this should affect the animations in the browser

  • @ajzack983
    @ajzack983 Жыл бұрын

    W tips

  • 3 ай бұрын

    Are you human? AWESOME! 😁

  • @edehchinedu4554
    @edehchinedu455410 ай бұрын

    you mind doing loading animation

  • @frqstbite1001
    @frqstbite1001 Жыл бұрын

    does the king like comments

  • @HaiNguyen-zd6yj
    @HaiNguyen-zd6yj2 ай бұрын

    Hi sir, is there any solution for animation-delay not working with animation-timeline:view() ? Thank you!

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Ай бұрын

    Don't think you can delay, when it's scroll based, you'll just want to change the offsets for the view()

  • @jfftck
    @jfftck Жыл бұрын

    The problem with Houdini is none of the specifications are past draft stage and that can result in many issues in the future, that is why Mozilla doesn’t support it.

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    Mozilla doesn't support it because their team was gutted and they have a much smaller budget than in the past. Chrome 100% was a bit too early on putting into production imo, but now with Safari getting behind @property as well, it is what it is at this point

  • @khumbomunsaka716
    @khumbomunsaka716 Жыл бұрын

    The links aren’t in the description. I don’t know if I am the only one that sees that.

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    Oops! Sorry about that, I've just added them :)

  • @jfftck
    @jfftck Жыл бұрын

    I use “0%, 100%” to have a smooth infinite animation.

  • @JasonJA88
    @JasonJA88 Жыл бұрын

    I feel like Firefox is falling behind, Even its implementation of :has() cannot detect changes to the DOM.

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    Жыл бұрын

    They gutted their team awhile back, so I think going forward it'll always be lagging by a bit, sadly.

  • @JasonJA88

    @JasonJA88

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KevinPowell 😥

  • @websibaer
    @websibaer7 ай бұрын

    hmmm ... for me as a beginner in animation, that was totally spanish, not fully explained, too quickly jumped from line to line, and how javascript (which was not mentioned in the Title as beeing part of it) interfeares was by far not even guessable. hmm... spanish, chinese and cambodian, that is what I would answer, if you'd ask me how easy it is to understand.

  • @Alexandra-ou1gl
    @Alexandra-ou1gl Жыл бұрын

    у меня был рюкзак с ноутом

  • @thegoldgamer6339
    @thegoldgamer6339Ай бұрын

    why at his style is scss and not css

  • @TheMetalMag
    @TheMetalMag Жыл бұрын

    What is this haircut? 😂

  • @user-og9nl5mt1b
    @user-og9nl5mt1b Жыл бұрын

    I'll ask ai to give me tips and follow those tips and order me a sandwich

  • @sudoscientist255
    @sudoscientist255 Жыл бұрын

    Great video but your shirt is triggering me lmaoo

  • @sudoscientist255

    @sudoscientist255

    Жыл бұрын

    Holy crap, animating custom properties is awesome. Thank you for showing us!

  • @RT-yg6ec
    @RT-yg6ec5 ай бұрын

    made too many mistakes. guy sucks

  • @KevinPowell

    @KevinPowell

    5 ай бұрын

    😢

  • @RT-yg6ec

    @RT-yg6ec

    5 ай бұрын

    @@KevinPowell doesnt mean i dont respect u

  • @RT-yg6ec

    @RT-yg6ec

    5 ай бұрын

    ok, @KevinPowell i take it back, you rock. i'm sorry for saying you suck. you don't. thank you for your amazing content over the years. you are a global treasure. i'm just an asshole sometimes, and i shouldn't have said it.

  • @rodbrowning
    @rodbrowning Жыл бұрын

    Nice