#Animate.less Cross-browser CSS3 animation library
If you're a web hipster, and you're already using Twitter's Bootstrap like a whore, you're gonna love this.
animate.less
, originally created by Dan Eden, is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations converted into LESS for you to use in your Bootstrap projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
##Usage ###Files
animate.css
is 64kb and animate.min.css
is 48kb.
You can use bower, npm, or download a zip.
bower --save install animate.less
npm --save install animate.less
###Bootstrap/LESS
To use animate.less in your Bootstrap project, simply add the line below into bootstrap.less
:
@import "<PATH_TO_SOURCE>/animate.less";
###Inside your HTML
Add the class animated
to an element, along with any of the animation names. That's it! You've got a CSS animated element. Super!
For example:
<h1 id="logo" class="animated fadeIn">...</h1>
###Inside your stylesheet
Since we're using LESS, we can utilize our animation library by adding .animated
and any of the many animation names as classes.
For example:
h1#logo {
float: left;
font-family: 'Cubano', sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 3.5em;
text-transform: uppercase;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
.animated; // Initiate animation library
.bounce; // Initiate bounce effect
}
Note: if you're having issues, try re-compiling bootstrap.less
for changes to take effect.
###Extending with jQuery You can add more functionality to your animations with jQuery such as below:
$("#logo").addClass('animated bounceOutLeft');
We can also bind these classes with events or triggers like below:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#logo").click(function() {
$("this").addClass("animated bounceOutLeft");
});
});
###Editing an animation effect You can
- change the duration of your animations with the LESS varible
@animationDurationTime
- extend the delay with LESS varible
@animationDelayTime
- change the animation fill mode with the LESS variable
@animationFillMode
or - change the number of times that it plays.
If you do edit an animation effect, make sure you change them cross-browser.
#logo {
-vendor-animation-duration: 3s; // Change to Webkit, Mozilla, Opera, etc.
-vendor-animation-delay: 2s;
-vendor-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
animation-duration 3s; // Default
animation-delay: 2s; // Default
animation-iteration-count: infinite; // Default
}
Note: be sure to replace "vendor" in the CSS with the applicable vendor prefixes (webkit, moz, ms, o).
Note: Safari in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) has a display glitch with the Flippers. They may not appear at all until the animation is completed, or the page may have other artifacting. One fix is to add overflow: hidden to the parent div.
Head over to http://daneden.me/animate/build/ to select which animations you need. This will download a .css file, so just rename it to .less and use as described above.
You can also pick & choose which LESS files in your own LESS, just set the variables & import stuff (see animate.less for example):
@animationDurationTime: 0.5s;
@animationDelayTime: 0s;
@animationFillMode: both;
@animationLessLocation: '../node_modules/animate.less/source';
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/animated.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounce.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceIn.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceInDown.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceInLeft.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceInRight.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceInUp.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceOut.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceOutDown.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceOutLeft.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceOutRight.less";
@import "@{animationLessLocation}/bounceOutUp.less";
###Live demo
View the animation library in action over at http://daneden.me/animate/.
##Browser Support
Since we're using CSS3 here, we're limited to only modern browsers like Chrome, Safari, Mozilla, and Opera.
##License
Animate.css is licensed under the ☺ license. (http://licence.visualidiot.com/)
##Future Development
I'll shortly be compiling an animation-library.less
which will allow you to pick and choose which effects you need in your project.
Down the line, IE8/9 support hopefully.
##Learn more
You can learn more about animate.css over at http://daneden.me/animate and Twitter Bootstrap over at http://getbootstrap.com/
##Cheat Sheet
####Attention seekers: flash bounce shake tada swing wobble wiggle pulse
####Flippers (currently Webkit, Firefox, & IE10 only): flip flipInX flipOutX flipInY flipOutY
####Fading entrances: fadeIn fadeInUp fadeInDown fadeInLeft fadeInRight fadeInUpBig fadeInDownBig fadeInLeftBig fadeInRightBig
####Fading exits: fadeOut fadeOutUp fadeOutDown fadeOutLeft fadeOutRight fadeOutUpBig fadeOutDownBig fadeOutLeftBig fadeOutRightBig
####Bouncing entrances: bounceIn bounceInDown bounceInUp bounceInLeft bounceInRight
####Bouncing exits: bounceOut bounceOutDown bounceOutUp bounceOutLeft bounceOutRight
####Rotating entrances: rotateIn rotateInDownLeft rotateInDownRight rotateInUpLeft rotateInUpRight
####Rotating exits: rotateOut rotateOutDownLeft rotateOutDownRight rotateOutUpLeft rotateOutUpRight
####Lightspeed: lightSpeedIn lightSpeedOut
####Specials: hinge rollIn rollOut
- Type
npm install
to install the dev tools. - Type
npm run build
to build the CSS files. Check outpackage.json
to see how to add these tools to your own LESS-based project.