October 18, 2023  SEONews
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How To Animate Along A Path In CSS — Smashing Magazine


CSS loaders and progress indicators are some of the most widely used examples in tutorials and documentation. There are so many ways to approach them. It’s possible that some approaches may be “better” than others, but it also depends on what you want to accomplish. In this article, Preethi demonstrates an approach using animated custom properties, a conic gradient, CSS offset, and emoji to create the illusion of a scooter racing along a donut track.

Let’s talk about progress indicators — or loaders. It’s true that there are so many tutorials about them and even more examples floating around CodePen. There was a time just a couple of years ago when loaders seemed to be the go-to example for framework documentation, next to to-do apps.

I recently had the task of creating the loading state for a project, so naturally, I looked to CodePen for inspiration. What I wanted was a circular shape, and there is no shortage of examples. In many cases, the approach is some combination of using the CSS border-radius property to get a circular shape and @keyframes to spin it from 0deg to 360deg.

I needed a little more than that. Specifically, I needed a donut shape that fills in the progress indicator as it goes from 0% to 100%. Thankfully, I found great donut examples I could use for inspiration and several different approaches. For example, I could use the “trick” of an SVG with a stroke that animates with a combination of stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset. Temani Afif has ...



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