CSS animations tutorial

Draft

Learning goals

• Be able to create simple CSS transforms

Prerequisites

• CSS tutorial

Level and target population

• Beginners

Teaching materials

• Example text: ....

Remarks

• This tutorial is intended for students in educational technology or any other field that is technology intensive. For people who need less, there exist many easy CSS tutorials on the web. This text is intended for students who also must learn principles and who are willing to learn CSS by doing a project, looking at CSS code and online reference manuals.
• Ideally, a teacher also should assign a text formatting task, during or before assigning this tutorial for reading).

Introduction

div {
    -webkit-animation: mykeyframes 5s; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    animation: mykeyframes 5s;
}

/* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
@-webkit-keyframes mykeyframes {
    from {background: red;}
    to {background: yellow;}
}

/* Standard syntax */
@keyframes mykeyframes {
    from {background: blue;}
    to {background: red;}
}

Links

Official

• CSS Animations. As of Jan 2015 = W3C Working Draft 19 February 2013

Other

• Using CSS animations (MDN)

• http://lea.verou.me/tag/css3-animations/
  • http://leaverou.github.io/animatable/

• http://cssanimate.com