An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations. Advertisement By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax. The CSS3 animations module1 in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it has the potential to become a big part of Web design. Using CSS3 keyframe animations, developers can create smooth, maintainable animations that perform relatively well and that don’t require reams of scripting. It’s just another way that CSS3 is helping to solve a real-world problem in an elegant manner. If you haven’t yet started learning the syntax for CSS3 animations, here’s your chance to prepare for when this part of the CSS3 spec moves past the working draft2 stage. In this article, we’ll cover all the important parts of the syntax, and we’ll fill you in on browser support so that you’ll know when to start using it. A Simple Animated Landscape Scene (NOTE: Versions of Safari prior to 5.1 have a bug that prevents the animation from finishing correctly.
The @keyframes At-Rule. Bouncy Animated Loading Animation. CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer. Advertisement Experienced developers understand that CSS3 can be added to new projects with progressive enhancement in mind. This ensures that content is accessible while non-supportive browsers fall back to a less-enhanced experience for the user. But developers could face a situation where a client insists that the enhancements work cross-browser, demanding support even for IE6. In that case, I’ve collected together a number of options that developers can consider for those circumstances where support for a CSS3 feature is required for all versions of Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, & IE8 — all of which are still currently in significant use).
Opacity / Transparency I think all developers are baffled at why Internet Explorer still fails to support this very popular (albeit troublesome) property. The Syntax You really only need the second line, which works in all versions of Internet Explorer. The Demonstration This is the same element without the opacity settings. The Drawbacks Box Shadow. Mastering CSS Gradients in Less Than 1 Hour. Have you refrained from using CSS Gradients because either you didn’t understand them, or thought the browser support for them wasn’t good enough to consider using them in your projects? Well, it’s time to kill those 1px wide images, my friend. If you’re just curious about how to use CSS Gradients, this is the place for you.
We’ll start with the basics of syntax to very advanced effects with lots of tips and examples. Remember, learning about CSS gradients is really important since browsers are getting better and better every day. Mobile browsers have good CSS3 support by default. So, let’s rock! Basic syntax The first thing you must be aware of is browser support. We’ll focus on “standard” browser rules here (e.g. we won’t talk about old from() to() rules), and we’ll have a chapter on IE compatibility at the end (since its filters don’t allow all the effects we’ll see here). This is the basic syntax: This CSS will get this result: So, here are the items explained: Multiple gradients Cool Effects. CSS3 gradients - Adobe - The Expressive Web - Beta. CSS3 Form Styling Cheat Sheet | Tiffbits. Stroll.js - CSS3 Scroll Effects.
10 of the coolest CSS3 and CSS effects. We all know it and we all love it, and of course by now you probably already know I am talking about CSS and CSS3. Actually, we should probably take a moment to thank CSS3 before going any further for speeding up the load times for all of your favorite sites. They, if they know what they are doing, are more than likely using CSS3 in place of a ton of images to enhance user load times, which is pretty awesome.
It is a pretty accepted fact by now that we simply do not need images to do all the things we used to need them for. With CSS3 gradients, transitions, and all the effects, it has really seemed to have taken a lot of the weight off the shoulders of our websites, because let’s be honest — images were surely weighing them down. Don’t be mistaken though, CSS3 and CSS can’t do everything but, ironically enough, I doubt most of us are aware of its limitations or what pushes the very edges of its possibilities. Well, today we are here to find that out. Text-based effects Anaglyphs Layering. CSS3 Snippets for Front-End Web Developers | WebInterfaceLab. Makisu ~ CSS 3D Dropdown Concept. Nigiri Maguro Sake Unagi Buri Suzuki Saba Iwashi Kohada Hirame Tobiwo Maki Ana-kyu Chutoro Kaiware Kampyo Kappa Natto Negitoro Oshinko Otoro Tekka Sashimi Toro Ebi Ika Tako Tomago Kani Katsuo Toggle CSS 3D Not Detected :( I couldn't detect your browser's CSS 3D capabilities.
6 Cool Image Captions with CSS3. CSS3 is really powerful. It used to be that we need images or a bunch of JavaScript codelines to make a simple transition effect. Nowadays we can do the same with only CSS3. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create image captions with various transitions simply using CSS3. Browser Support This caption will be much dependent on transform and transition properties which are relatively new features, so, it would be wise to take note of the browser support needed to run the caption smoothly.
The following are browsers that already support transform and transition: Internet Explorer 10+ (not released yet)Firefox 6+Chrome 13+Safari 3.2+Opera 11+ Now, let’s start the tutorial. HTML Structure We have 6 images; each image with a different caption style. Basic CSS Before styling any element, it is always a good start to reset all the properties using this CSS reset and give them their default style values, so all browsers will render the same result (except maybe, IE6). Image Box Style Caption 1. Making a CSS3 Animated Menu. Martin Angelov In this short tutorial, we will be using the power of CSS3 effects and transitions, to build a JavaScript-free animated navigation menu which you can use to add a polished look to your website or template.
We will be using some neat features such as the :target pseudo selector and :after elements. The HTML The first step is to define the HTML backbone of the website. We are using HTML5 tags extensively, so we will need to include the HTML5 enabling script for IE in the head section of the document. As it is enclosed in a conditional comment, it is only going to be requested in IE browsers and will not affect the performance of the others: index.html <!
You can notice that we are including a stylesheet from Google APIs. In the body of the document, we have the header, nav and footer HTML5 tags, which divide the page into three sections with semantic value. So lets move on to the CSS styles. CSS3 Animated Navigation Menu The CSS Our CSS styles are defined in assets/styles.css.