126 CSS transition Examples
Make your UI feel more dynamic and responsive with these CSS transition examples. This collection demonstrates how to animate changes in color, size, spacing, opacity, and other properties - using just a few lines of CSS for polished, subtle motion effects.
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Intersection Observer Example
A horizontal scrolling gallery where the background color smoothly transitions to match the current image, triggered by the Intersection Observer API.
Radial Navigation Menu
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.
Side Navigation with Icons
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.
Extreme Hover with HTML and CSS
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.
Log In and Sign Up Forms with Fingerprint
A fluid mobile prototype demonstrating state-driven navigation transitions and a 3D dashboard carousel powered by Swiper.js.
Physics Milestones Timeline
An animated vertical timeline where historical event cards slide in from alternating sides as they enter the viewport upon scrolling.
Pure CSS Home Media (Ambilight)
A remarkable, zero-JS interactive environment simulation utilizing the CSS Checkbox Hack and global CSS Variables to control the scene’s ambient lighting.
Real-time Clock
An analog clock with a mechanical ticking effect driven by cubic-bezier transitions and precise rotation logic.
Responsive Watch Using vmin
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.
Simple and Responsive Image Slider
A smooth, responsive image slider where slides glide horizontally via container translation, featuring dynamic navigation dots and adaptive resizing.
Simple SVG Circle Graph with Animation
A smooth radial progress animation where the SVG stroke fills the circumference based on a dynamically calculated offset.
Background Slider
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.
Mobile Tab Navigation
An elegant mobile app prototype showcasing classic bottom tab bar navigation with smooth content transitions.
Product Slider: Marvel Characters
A smooth, touch-enabled infinite loop of cards offering tactile feedback via scale transitions on hover.
3D Slider
An elegant, cinematic slider that allows users to “flip” through content with a sense of depth, drawing attention to the central item.
Photo Animation on Text Hover
An elegant, minimalist section featuring smooth typographic animation and interactive elements that engage the user by revealing visual context upon reading.
Animated Share Interaction
A smooth, tactile micro-interface that saves space by hiding sharing options until needed, delighting the user with high-quality animation.
Checkbox Animations with Indeterminate State
A tactile, visually rich option list where interaction is accompanied by smooth “drawing” animation, and group selection logic works intuitively.
CSS Hamburger Icons
A collection of 10 distinct hamburger menu animations, ranging from simple rotations to complex, multi-stage morphs.
Expanding Cards
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.
Animated Bottom Tab Bar with CSS Transitions
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.
Cyber-Styled Sliding Tab Bar
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.
Day and Night Toggle with SVG Animation
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.
Expanding Flexbox Panels
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.
Interactive Profile Card with Canvas
Canvas-powered dot grid with interactive profile components. Responsive card design featuring smooth transitions, gradient accents, and scalable SVG avatars.
React Animated Custom Cursor
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.
Simple Full-Screen Slideshow With Vanilla JavaScript
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.
Cascading Image Slider
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.
