Simple CSS Hover Effects How To Video: Learn CSS Animations

When it comes to designing special web browsing effects such as animations that hover over elements, the first thing that comes to mind is JavaScript or searching GitHub for FX libraries; however, designers who are into CSS can also accomplish this through pure coding. A member of a popular online discussion forum dedicated to web design recently posted a video showing an example of this on Visual Studio, and the responses were quite positive.

While it certainly helped that the video had a nice Lo-Fi hip-hop track playing in the background over the soothing typing sounds of a Cherry MX keyboard, the code itself drew a lot of attention. By the way, this is an emerging trend among coding communities; instead of producing a video with voice over explanations, the content creator just captures events on a desktop screen and selects a relaxing soundtrack along with the clicking sounds made by a mechanical keyboards. This trend is called "Chill Build," and some coders feel that they could watch these video for hours.

Not surprisingly, GitHub has dozens of examples on how you can do this, including Hover.CSS, which happens to be one of the most popular methods.

Hover animations allow us to change the way our elements change in front of our eyes. We can customize it to change only specific elements, or to work everywhere if so desired. You can define all the custom animations by adding them to a :hover-animation file so that they can be applied to any element in our page that also contains a div. This makes it easier to create the animation for everything, like an element or even a parent.

In CSS, animated and transitional properties need to be defined with pseudo classes. A pseudo-class can be nested, and it will allow you to introduce a new class inside a string or string-value. In reality, these animations are actually transitions, but the human eye will perceive them as motion. The beginning and the end of the transitions are set by key frames that determine when a rendering event should take place. It is important to note that there are no intermediate events; only starting and finishing events. For more information click here https://youtu.be/LiCn2dQoYkk.