138 CSS transition Examples

This Kinetic 144-Clock Digital Display is a stunning example of procedural animation. Inspired by physical kinetic art installations (like those by Humans Since 1982), it uses a grid of 144 individual analog clocks to form digital numbers. React manages the “target state” of every single clock hand, while CSS transitions handle the smooth, synchronized movement, creating a mesmerizing flow of time.

This Nike Product Card Interaction is a dynamic UI component designed for e-commerce listings. It transforms a standard static product grid into an engaging experience. When a user hovers over a card, the product image rotates and shifts to make room for a vertical brand label that slides in from the side. This clever use of space allows for a clean initial view while revealing branding details on demand.

This Holographic 3D Interactive Card is a premium UI component inspired by rare physical trading cards. It features a sophisticated depth effect where the logo floats independently from the iridescent background, reacting dynamically to mouse movements or touch input. The use of modern CSS APIs ensures high-performance rendering of complex gradients and masks, creating a truly immersive “collectible” feel for digital assets.

The Magnetic Video Play Button Concept is an interactive UI element that replaces the standard video player controls with a creative, cursor-following play button. This implementation enhances user engagement by making the primary interaction point - the play toggle - dynamic and physically responsive to the user’s movement. It is perfect for landing pages and high-end portfolio sites where media content is the centerpiece.

This Twitch Style Gradient Hover Card brings a high-energy interactive element to your UI, perfect for feature highlights or gaming profiles. It combines a sliding background gradient that utilizes responsive vmin units with a JavaScript-powered staggered text reveal. The result is a fluid animation where the background shifts dynamically while the subtitle types itself in word by word.

This Expandable News Card Widget demonstrates a classic pattern for managing content density in UI design. By default, it presents a single “Headline” state to save screen space. Upon interaction, it smoothly transitions into an “Expanded” state, revealing a scrollable list of news items. It utilizes React state to handle the logic and CSS transitions for the visual effect.

This Vue FLIP Image Gallery showcases a high-performance way to animate layout changes that are typically expensive for the browser. When a user selects an image, it expands to fill a larger portion of the grid, while surrounding items gracefully rearrange themselves. This is achieved not by simple CSS transitions, but by the FLIP technique (First, Last, Invert, Play), ensuring buttery smooth 60fps animations even during complex DOM reflows.

This CSS Anchor Positioning Navigation Effect is a masterclass in modern web standards, achieving a complex “sliding highlight” interaction entirely without JavaScript. By leveraging the new Anchor Positioning API alongside the :has() selector, the component allows a single background element to tether itself to whichever menu item is currently hovered, creating a premium, app-like feel with minimal code overhead.

This Micro-Interaction Loading Button demonstrates how to pack multiple feedback states into a single UI element without cluttering the interface. It starts as a clean “Submit” button. Hovering reveals a directional arrow, hinting at action. Clicking triggers a seamless loading sequence where the arrow transforms into a spinner, finally resolving into a checkmark to confirm success.

This Responsive Vue Multiplayer Select component is a playful UI pattern for game interfaces or configuration forms. It utilizes Vue’s reactivity to dynamically calculate the width of game controller illustrations, ensuring they perfectly fill the container regardless of whether 1, 2, 3, or 4 players are selected. The result is a smooth, accordian-like expansion effect.

A pure CSS expanding gallery powered by the modern :has() selector. Hovering triggers a grid-template-columns transition, widening the active item while revealing content via opacity and transform animations, all styled with blend modes for a tinted monochrome aesthetic.

A rectangular button smoothly shrinks into a circle, the text fades out, and an upward-pointing arrow begins to cyclically rise within it.

A horizontal scrolling gallery where the background color smoothly transitions to match the current image, triggered by the Intersection Observer API.

A stylish, responsive sidebar menu built with React and SCSS, featuring a staggered reveal animation orchestrated by dynamic transition-delay calculation. The layout combines a radial quick-action menu around a user avatar with a cascading list of full navigation options, all controlled via React Context.

A vertical CSS-only navigation menu where hovering triggers a smooth animation: the icon scales up and changes color while the text label fades out, emphasizing the visual symbol.

A visually dynamic and impressive effect where hovering over a static image transforms it into a complex, 3D-like collage, showcasing the capabilities of CSS transitions and imperative loading control.

A fluid mobile prototype demonstrating state-driven navigation transitions and a 3D dashboard carousel powered by Swiper.js.

An animated vertical timeline where historical event cards slide in from alternating sides as they enter the viewport upon scrolling.

A remarkable, zero-JS interactive environment simulation utilizing the CSS Checkbox Hack and global CSS Variables to control the scene’s ambient lighting.

An analog clock with a mechanical ticking effect driven by cubic-bezier transitions and precise rotation logic.

A highly detailed, photorealistic Analog Watch simulation using Vanilla JavaScript and setInterval to imperatively calculate and apply rotate(Xdeg) transforms to the clock hands. The visual realism and theme switching are driven entirely by complex CSS, utilizing layered linear gradients for case and bezel depth, advanced SVG clipPath for irregular shapes (lugs), and a dedicated .lume class for a dramatic, phosphorescent theme change.

A smooth, responsive image slider where slides glide horizontally via container translation, featuring dynamic navigation dots and adaptive resizing.

A smooth radial progress animation where the SVG stroke fills the circumference based on a dynamically calculated offset.

An atmospheric and immersive gallery where the main content (slide) is the focus, and the page background serves as its blurred and darkened echo, creating a unified visual space.

An elegant mobile app prototype showcasing classic bottom tab bar navigation with smooth content transitions.

A smooth, touch-enabled infinite loop of cards offering tactile feedback via scale transitions on hover.

An elegant, cinematic slider that allows users to “flip” through content with a sense of depth, drawing attention to the central item.

An elegant, minimalist section featuring smooth typographic animation and interactive elements that engage the user by revealing visual context upon reading.

A smooth, tactile micro-interface that saves space by hiding sharing options until needed, delighting the user with high-quality animation.

A tactile, visually rich option list where interaction is accompanied by smooth “drawing” animation, and group selection logic works intuitively.

A collection of 10 distinct hamburger menu animations, ranging from simple rotations to complex, multi-stage morphs.

A vertical neumorphic accordion that uses CSS Flexbox transitions to dynamically expand content panels. JavaScript toggles the .active class, triggering a smooth flex-grow animation that enlarges the selected panel while revealing its detailed content via opacity transitions, creating a tactile and responsive settings interface.

A showcase of five distinct tab bar animations orchestrated primarily through CSS transitions and sibling combinators, minimizing JavaScript dependency. The implementation leverages CSS Custom Properties for dynamic theming and intricate nth-child logic to drive fluid indicator movements, ranging from simple sliding lines to complex, claymorphic ‘pop-out’ interactions.

A cyber-styled navigation bar featuring a sliding indicator driven by absolute positioning and coordinate mapping. JavaScript dynamically updates the style.left property via a switch statement, while CSS transition and drop-shadow render a smooth, neon-lit motion effect over the active SVG icons.

An atmospheric day/night toggle where a minimal JavaScript classList.toggle trigger activates a cinematic transition across complex SVG layers. The scenery leverages linear-gradient masking and mix-blend-mode for dynamic lighting, while long-duration CSS transform properties orchestrate a seamless, parallax-like shift between solar and lunar states.

This expanding panel gallery’s core animation is powered by CSS Flexbox, where the flex property is transitioned to create a fluid expansion effect. The state is managed by a minimal vanilla JavaScript snippet that simply toggles an .active class on click. This .active class also triggers a multi-layered text animation, using a delayed transition on the <h1>’s opacity and filter: blur() properties for a polished, cinematic reveal.

Canvas-powered dot grid with interactive profile components. Responsive card design featuring smooth transitions, gradient accents, and scalable SVG avatars.

This custom animated cursor implementation employs a dual-layer system where the inner dot follows mouse coordinates instantly via mousemove events, while the outer ring utilizes requestAnimationFrame with coordinate interpolation to create a smooth trailing effect.

A slideshow employing a CSS Grid stack for a fade transition, toggled by an .is-active class. JavaScript drives navigation via nextElementSibling and powers a custom cursor by updating its style.left/top properties based on mousemove events for fluid tracking.

An elegant slider where the entire scrolling logic is built not on transforms, but on DOM manipulation. JavaScript uses appendChild and prepend to reorder the elements, and CSS instantly picks up the changes via :nth-child and transition to create a smooth, cascading effect.

This demo features a responsive navigation block with sticky behavior and a jQuery based scroll animation for the header. The main technical feature is the dynamic style switching between normal and “lightmode” using localStorage to persist the state.

A skeuomorphic toggle design achieved by combining multiple linear-gradients for the body and box-shadow to create a volumetric effect. The smooth switching animation and “glow” in the active state are implemented via transition with a custom cubic-bezier curve.

A demonstration of a two-phase menu reveal animation - a fast transform: translateX shift and a slower width expansion are defined in a single transition property, creating a distinct visual effect.

A toggle switch implemented using a single <input type="checkbox"> and pseudo-elements. The “button” effect and its movement are achieved through complex, multi-layered box-shadow and the shifting of the ::before element.

A navigation menu with a neon glow and a complex hover effect. Icons and text use the CSS drop-shadow filter to create a glow effect, while the element’s color is controlled via an inline CSS variable --clr.

A full vertical slider with scroll-snap points. The navigation indicator is dynamically animated using the Intersection Observer API, which tracks when a slide enters the viewport.

A skeuomorphic toggle button where the entire press effect is implemented in pure CSS using box-shadow and transform: scale(). JavaScript is only used to toggle the WAI-ARIA attribute aria-pressed on click.

A multi-level FAQ accordion implemented in vanilla JS. The classic technique of setting panel.style.maxHeight = panel.scrollHeight + "px" is used to expand panels, ensuring a smooth height transition

An animated underline effect for navigation where an SVG path segment smoothly “flows” from one item to another - on click, JS dynamically calculates and sets the stroke-dasharray for the SVG, creating the illusion of movement.

A minimalistic example of event-driven SVG animation where the geometry is rebuilt both by a setInterval timer and user clicks - the key technique is the direct manipulation of the d attribute via setAttribute, which triggers a CSS transition to create organic movement without complex animation logic in JS.

An animated loader button using jQuery and SCSS, where progress is implemented via an @for loop that generates 101 linear-gradient rules - the state is changed through a custom attribute updated by JS.