40 Cool CSS Animation Examples

Most modern browsers are now supporting CSS animations. Yes, CSS are now allowing you to create some simple animations, without the help of a client-side programming language such as JavaScript. This post is aimed at a front-end web developers looking for inspiration when it comes to web animations.

Gif Style CSS3 Animation By Jascha Goltermann

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Pure CSS One Div Weather Animated Icons By Fabrizio Bianchi

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Solar System animation – Pure CSS By Malik Dellidj

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Gif animation + CSS animation + Blend modes By yoksel

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Indatus CSS Animation By Patrick Hill

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Material Design Hamburger By Chris Wheatley

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Stats animation By Jonas Badalic

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CSS+SVG Pacman By buschidos

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Cubes CSS3 Animation By Nate Wiley

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Delightful Checkbox Animation By Dylan Raga

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Confirm button By Hakim El Hattab

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Star Wars Toggle Icon Animation By Riza Selçuk Saydam

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Hamburger Icon CSS3 ONLY Animation By Dawid Krajewski

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Animated signing of signature (SVG paths) By Gary Hepting

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Chrome Dinosaur Animation By Nick Spiel

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Cssynth By Bennett Feely

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Single Element CSS Spinners By Luke Haas

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The Art of UI Animations By Mark Geyer

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A bicycle designed entirely in CSS By Gautam Krishnan

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CSS3 animation effects for Magnific Popup By Dmitry Semenov

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CSS Responsive animated Accordion By Chris Wright

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CSS3 Text Animation Effect By Nick Mkrtchyan

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Coffee Maker Animation By Roger Flanagan

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Animated text fill

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Tape Recorder By Scott

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COSMOS By Patrick Brosset

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Metaball Spinner By Jeff Thomas

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Flappy Dialog By Alex

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Hand animation

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Pure CSS Popping Dashboard By Jamie Coulter

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Submarine with CSS By Alberto Jerez

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CSS Text filling with water By Lucas Bebber

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Animation to Explain CSS Triangles By Chris Coyier

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Windows-8-like Animations with CSS3 and jQuery By Sara Soueidan

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Logo 2015 – Animated By Sam Markiewicz

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3D CSS Typography By Noah Blon

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fade loading By Diego Pardo

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Cloudy Spiral CSS animation By Hakim El Hattab

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CSS 3D Dropdown Concept By Justin Windle

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CSS Gooey Menu (Version 1) By Lucas Bebber

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  1. Vikramsays:

    Excellent post
    If someone stumbles upon this and would like to see some more examples of Useful CSS animation examples with code & animation basics take a look.
    Thanks

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