All About Cubic Bezier Curves & Transitions

On Mon 14th Jan | In Coding | By

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Cubic Bezier Curves in CSS3

In the last post, we looked at the basics of CSS transitions, including how to use easing to control how your animation flows. In this post, I want to look deeper at a very powerful easing feature; cubic bezier curves.

In short, they let you define exactly what path your animation will take, and thanks to some awesome community tools, they are extremely easy to use (No maths required at all). This gives you total flexibility with your transitions.

One of the best tools is the free Cubic-Bezier.com by Lea Verou. It lets you make new curves and see them in action just by dragging the handles. We’ll use it for all of the demos in this post, and it’s well worth a bookmark!

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Get Started With CSS3 Transitions Today

On Mon 7th Jan | In Coding | By

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CSS3 Transitions

Transitions (basic animations) are one of the most popular additions in CSS3, and one of the easiest to implement for big gains on your site.

A transition is simply an animation from one set of CSS properties to another. So for example; whilst before you may have had links with blue text, which suddenly turned orange when you hovered on them, you would now replace that sudden jump with a more graceful animation.

In this post, we’ll look at the basic syntax, step through some examples, and finally take a brief look at current browser support.

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