150 CSS Animations

Static icons are dead pixels; they occupy space but offer no soul. We believe that every interaction — no matter how small — is an opportunity to delight. This navigation bar transforms the mundane act of switching tabs into a tactile event. By embedding the animation logic directly into the SVG structure, we create a system that feels organic, responsive, and deeply crafted. It is not just about showing the user where they are; it is about rewarding them for arriving there.

This Isometric Floating Layers Diagram is a visually striking React component designed to represent architectural stacks or multi-tiered systems. By combining SVG geometry with CSS animations, it creates a lightweight 3D isometric illusion. Each layer floats rhythmically, enhanced by vibrant gradients and drop shadows, making it perfect for landing pages explaining software infrastructure or service tiers.

This Pure CSS Animated Scorbunny showcases the power of CSS as an illustration tool. Without a single SVG or image file, it constructs a recognizable character using nested divs, gradients, and advanced border-radius manipulation. The character feels alive thanks to continuous idle animations (blinking eyes, wiggling ears) and a joyful reaction when the user hovers over it.

This Staggered Bars Reveal Animation creates a cinematic intro for landing pages using zero JavaScript. By orchestrating a single pseudo-element (::after) with complex linear-gradient backgrounds, the component simulates seven distinct bars sliding into place. The animation cleverly shifts the background-position of each gradient strip sequentially, creating a rhythmic “wipe” effect that culminates in the text appearing.

This Blooming Night Garden Animation is a delightful example of “CSS Art,” where HTML elements are shaped into complex illustrations using code. It features a complete scene with a textured night sky, procedurally blooming flowers, swaying grass, and a particle system of floating hearts, all brought to life through choreographed CSS keyframes.

This Trigonometric 3D Orbit Gallery is a stunning example of “Code Art,” demonstrating the raw power of modern CSS mathematics. Instead of relying on rigid keyframes for positioning, it uses parametric equations to place and animate 32 images along a complex, fluid 3D curve in real-time, creating a perpetual motion machine effect purely with stylesheets.

The Apple-Style Smooth Animated Accordion is a cutting-edge UI component that achieves high-end animation results without a single line of JavaScript. Inspired by the sleek marketing pages of Apple, it utilizes the newest CSS specifications to solve the age-old problem of animating to height: auto while maintaining full accessibility through semantic HTML.

This Pure CSS Animated Details Accordion utilizes cutting-edge CSS functions to achieve smooth height transitions on native HTML elements without a single line of JavaScript. By leveraging the revolutionary calc-size() function and the ::details-content pseudo-element, it finally solves the age-old problem of animating from height: 0 to height: auto.

This Pure CSS Synthwave 80s Animation captures the nostalgic aesthetic of the 1980s retrowave genre. It features a complete animated scene: an infinite neon grid, a setting sun with scanlines, shaking palm trees, and a DeLorean driving into the distance. The scene is brought to life with a driving synthwave audio track and intricate CSS-only motion.

This Pure CSS Mix-Blend-Mode Dark Toggle offers a lightweight, JavaScript-free solution for theming. Instead of manually redefining colors for a dark theme, it utilizes a full-screen “curtain” overlay with a specific blending mode to mathematically invert the page’s color palette. The result is a smooth, wiping transition that instantly creates a high-contrast dark mode.

A psychedelic 3D VIP card animation powered by pure CSS.

A playful typographic vignette where Splitting.js enables granular CSS control, while complex @keyframes orchestrate a physics-based liquid dot that physically interacts with specific letters via data-char attributes.

A highly detailed Dual Analog Clock component that compares abstract and real-time animation.

An interactive profile card featuring a dynamic theme toggle triggered by clicks on the avatar or menu button.

A customizable React component that fetches live GitHub star counts via the API hook useEffect. It features a smooth loading transition: a spinning star icon expands into a count badge using CSS max-width and transform animations upon data retrieval, supported by SCSS-based light/dark theming.

A mesmerizing, slightly eerie animation of a “living hole” with teeth, demonstrating the power of modern CSS for creating complex procedural graphics.

A lively, responsive interface that turns boring navigation into a playful experience, where every user action is rewarded with delightful visual feedback.

A visually rich, animated section with cards that respond to hover (a colored border appears), creating a sense of interactivity and depth.

A neumorphic digital clock featuring a vertical sliding mechanism reminiscent of slot machines.

A lightweight, colorful, and animated chart demonstrating data visualization capabilities using pure CSS and Vue without heavy dependencies.

A dynamic field of black dots moving synchronously yet phase-shifted in time, forming complex geometric patterns reminiscent of moiré.

An elegant 3D scene where rotating text forms a spiral. The effect utilizes the perspective property for depth and HSL functions for procedurally generating the multi-layered color scheme.

A visually engaging pixel heart animation created purely using an HTML ul/li structure and CSS @keyframes, where the “pop-in” effect is achieved through smooth transform: scale transitions.

A demonstration of the new CSS Scroll-Driven Animations (SDA) API, where the scroll position of the entire page directly drives a complex, scaling, and rotating grid of images, achieving a high-performance, engaging visual effect purely with CSS.

The “liquid” pagination effect is fully implemented via pure CSS animation, using pseudo-elements and border-radius: 50% to create the dynamic “blob.” Vanilla JavaScript is responsible for precise active element positioning by calculating offsetLeft on click.

A clean implementation of the popular “confetti” effect for a button, using Vanilla JS to dynamically create/remove elements and set CSS variables, while the entire animation logic for movement and fading is handled by highly optimized CSS keyframes.

See how spectacular, complex animations built with pure CSS and JavaScript create dynamic, memorable screen changes.

A technical demo of geodata visualization using pure CSS/Sass to create a grid-based world map. The core feature is the animation control of numerous cells using @each and individual animation-delay: random(...), which makes the pulsing unique to each continent.

A pure-CSS masterpiece that uses advanced perspective and @keyframes to create a striking 3D-like parallax and an automatic slideshow. The demo highlights the power of modern CSS to achieve sophisticated interactive and animated interfaces without a single line of JS.

This carousel effect demonstrates a modern approach to CSS animations, using the offset-path property for circular motion. The complex scaling and highlighting effects on hover are achieved purely with CSS transitions and the :has() selector, eliminating the need for JavaScript.

Witness the power of pure CSS with this mesmerizing 3D mechanical animation, built using advanced 3D transforms and intricately choreographed keyframes — no JavaScript required.

A showcase of advanced CSS capabilities for creating stunning 2D animations. It uses CSS @property for smooth property transitions, allowing you to animate box-shadow and other elements without compromising performance.

This mini-project leverages CSS custom properties (@property) to create an animated gradient and interactive effects, while using requestAnimationFrame for optimized animation performance.

A neon sign effect built with SVG and CSS filters. The addition of a flickering animation using @keyframes and a jQuery class toggle makes the component both realistic and interactive.

A pure CSS demo that generates a complex 3D animation with perspective and transform-style: preserve-3d. It leverages CSS variables (--i, --d) to parameterize and control animation timing and positioning, making it flexible and scalable.

Explore an SVG-powered animated text ribbon, showcasing complex path animations and efficient CSS for a visually striking, scalable effect.

See how subtle animation-delay and pseudo-selectors like nth-child can animate individual letters, creating an engaging and scalable text loader powered entirely by CSS.

This demo showcases advanced CSS techniques like synchronized transform: rotate() animations and the filter: drop-shadow() property to achieve a visually striking glowing liquid effect within a transparent container.

A 3D sphere where an SCSS @for loop calculates the transform for each ring, and the entire animation and structure, built on perspective and transform-style: preserve-3d, are fully configurable via variables.

A large-scale 3D scene where Sass procedurally generates both the trajectory of 72 rings using trigonometry, and the @keyframes for its “fly-through” mode via a Sass map. Animation is switched without JS using the “checkbox hack”, and the entire composition is built upon perspective and transform-style: preserve-3d.

An illusion of an endlessly rolling 3D cube, achieved by synchronizing two @keyframes animations for rotation and sliding with an offset transform-origin. The complex rotation animation uses intermediate steps for a “bounce” effect, while a neon glow and -webkit-box-reflect complete the futuristic look.