February 16, 2023  SEONews
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Animating cars with HTML and SVG — Smashing Magazine


SVG <animateMotion> provides a way to define how an element moves along a motion path. In this article, Paul Scanlon shares an idea of how to use it by animating racing cars in an infinite loop as easy as one-two-three!

Hello! And if you like HTML, you’ve come to the right place!

I love HTML. As an old-school front-end developer, I think this is an extremely underrated skill. I’ve been writing HTML since ~2005, and today the browser alone can do almost all the things that Flash could do almost two decades ago!

One like that trick HTML now called <animateMotion> – those familiar with Flash will remember it as The Movement Guide. I found this video from 14 years ago, but the method existed a while before that:

The idea is, you create a path for elements to follow… and that’s it!

Here is an example of what you can do <animateMotion>:

If you take a look at the MDN Documents, you will see a simple example of a red circle following a path on an infinite loop. The race cars in the live preview follow the same simple rules, and they work just like that!

SVG used animateMotion

Here is a simplified version which I will use to explain some of the finer details.

please note: I removed some of the path values for brevity, but you can see src for the snippet below simple-version.html.)

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Simple Example</title> </head> <body> <main> <svg viewBox="0 0 307 184"...



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