The CSS Animations Pocket Guide

CSS animations open up a whole new way to look at and use CSS to bring motion to the web in creative ways. This Pocket Guide is designed to help you jump into using CSS @keyframe animations in your own projects, providing a strong foundation on which to start experimenting and creating.

In this book Val covers the basics of CSS @keyframe animations, walking you through a series of examples, and discussing practical considerations for dealing with browsers and fallbacks. You'll have everything you need to start playing with CSS @keyframe animations in just a couple of hours.

Who should read this book?

This is a book for web designers or developers who are new to CSS animations and want to start using them in their own work or experiments.

Topics include:

Part 1: CSS Animation Basics

An explanation of the basic building blocks for creating @keframe animations with CSS.

Part 2: Exploring animation properties

Slightly more advanced and highly useful properties like animation-direction, animation-delay and animation-fill-mode give you more fine-tuned control over your animations. This section shows how and when to use these properties.

Part 3: Understanding Easing

Where an object goes is important, but how it gets there is even more important. This section covers the details of the easing keywords and custom bezier functions.

Part 4: Common Animation Tasks

This section puts our CSS animation knowledge so far into practice, going into the details behind four example animations: an infinitely looping animation, animating with steps, using animation-play-state and applying multiple animations to one object.

Part 5: Performance and browser support

This section looks at the practical aspects of using CSS animations in production work. It covers how to determine browser support and what to consider when choosing your approach to fallbacks.

About the author:

Val Head is a designer and web animation consultant with a talent for getting designers and developers alike excited about the power of animation. She is the author of The Pocket Guide to CSS Animations and the upcoming Designing Interface Animations. She shares her passion for animation and UX by curating the UI Animation Newsletter, hosting the All The Right Moves screencast, and co-hosting the Motion and Meaning podcast.