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A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2)
7.3.2025
In this second article of a two-part series, Temani Afif demonstrates an alternative approach to creating the star rating component from the first article using experimental scroll-driven animations to animate the star rating's colors in place rather than using the border-image property.
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CSS Meets Voxel Art: Building a Rendering Engine with Stacked Grids
3.3.2025
Learn how transforms, perspective, and stacked grids can create a fully addressable 3D space and push the boundaries of what’s possible with pure CSS
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1)
28.2.2025
In this article, you'll learn how to make a full-on star rating component out of nothing but a single input element and vanilla CSS.
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Experimental CSS-Only Carousels with Scroll-Driven Animations
24.1.2024
Three carousel experiments made with CSS scroll-driven animations, based on Francesco Zagami's designs
CSS Infinite 3D Sliders
16.12.2022
In this series, we’ve been making image sliders with nothing but HTML and CSS. The idea is that we can use the same markup but different CSS to get wildly different results, no matter how many images we toss …
CSS Infinite 3D Sliders originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
CSS Infinite Slider Flipping Through Polaroid Images
9.12.2022
In the last article, we made a pretty cool little slider (or “carousel” if that’s what you prefer) that rotates in a circular direction. This time we are going to make one that flips through a stack of Polaroid …
CSS Infinite Slider Flipping Through Polaroid Images originally...
CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider
2.12.2022
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or the opposite). It’s the same deal with the many JavaScript libraries out …
CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider originally...
How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game
9.9.2022
I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rely on the ol’ …
How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback Time
6.9.2022
CSS-only Wolfenstein is a little project that I made a few weeks ago. It was an experiment with CSS 3D transformations and animations.
Inspired by the FPS demo and another Wolfenstein CodePen, I decided to build my own version. …
Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback Time originally...
Collective #720
14.7.2022
CSS-only shaders * Siter.io * Statements Vs. Expressions * Building your website using Jigsaw
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Single Element Loaders: The Spinner
10.6.2022
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to …
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Of Course We Can Make a CSS-Only Clock That Tells the Current Time!
16.7.2021
Let’s build a fully functioning and settable “analog” clock with CSS custom properties and the calc() function. Then we’ll convert it into a “digital” clock as well. All this with no JavaScript!
Here’s a quick look at the clocks …
The post Of Course We Can Make a CSS-Only Clock That Tells...
Ideas for CSS Button Hover Animations
17.2.2021
Some inspiration for button hover animations using CSS only.
The post Ideas for CSS Button Hover Animations appeared first on Codrops
Simple CSS Line Hover Animations for Links
10.2.2021
A couple of simple & subtle CSS-based line hover animations for links.
The post Simple CSS Line Hover Animations for Links appeared first on Codrops
A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline
21.8.2020
Nicky Meuleman, inspired by Cassie Evans, details how they built the anchor link hover on their sites. When a link is hovered, another color underline kinda slides in with a gap between the two. Typical text-decoration doesn’t help here, so multiple backgrounds are used instead,...
How to Make a CSS-Only Carousel
24.4.2020
We mentioned a way to make a CSS-only carousel in a recent issue of the newsletter and I thought that a more detailed write up would be interesting and capture some of my thoughts on making one.
So, here’s what we’re making today:
There’s no JavaScript here, whatsoever! No jQuery plugins....
CSS-Only Marquee Effect
5.4.2020
You make sure the text is more than twice the width of the screen, then use negative translate animations to do the marquee movement.
You’ll probably want to aria-hidden all but one of them if you need to duplicate the text. Or, you could use a very clever CSS trick...
CSS-Only Marquee Effect
31.3.2020
A simple CSS-only marquee effect for a menu based on Francesco Zagami's Dribbble shot.
CSS-Only Marquee Effect was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
How to Make a Line Chart With CSS
11.3.2020
Line,  bar, and pie charts are the bread and butter of dashboards and are the basic components of any data visualization toolkit. Sure, you can use SVG or a JavaScript chart library like Chart.js or a complex tool like D3 to create those charts, but what if you don't want to load yet another...
Solving Sticky Hover States with @media (hover: hover)
18.2.2020
Mezo Istvan does a good job of covering the problem and a solution to it in a blog post on Medium¹.
If you tap on something that has a :hover state but you don't leave the page then, on a mobile device, there is a chance that :hover state "sticks." You'll see this with stuff like jump-links used...