Slot Machine Animation Css

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Although Twitter’s is made from an SVG, it can also be created out of pure CSS using a simple CSS keyframe animation, with nothing but a single HTML element. As you’ll see, we’ll make heavy use of CSS variables to make our resulting CSS more flexible and extensible.

Let’s just get to it.

Note that the example in this post is not meant to be 100% identical to Twitter's loading animation.

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The Idea

My inital thought was to:

  1. Create a circle
  2. Rotate the circle indefinitely from 0 to 360deg, and
  3. Find a way to indicate that the circle is being rotated

In CSS pseudocode (if you will), this roughly means:

  1. Draw a square with a border radius of at least 50%
  2. Animate a circle continually from 0 to 360 degrees
  3. Indicate that the circle is indeed rotating

The third point seemed fuzzy. But let's keep going.

First, some initial setup

What’s going on with the initial setup?

On the :root pseudo-class, we defined some CSS variables:

  1. --s-loader-wrapper-bg-color: the background color for the loader’s parent container
  2. --s-loader-width: the loader width
  3. --s-loader-height: the loader height (notice how we can assign a variable to another variable)
  4. --s-loader-border-color-trans: an opaque version of the loader border color
  5. --s-loader-border-color-full: a non-opaque version of the loader border color (this will do the trick of indicating the loader rotation)

On the body element, we:

  1. Removed the browser default margin on the body element
  2. Applied a background color (rgb(21, 22, 43) is a fallback for --s-loader-wrapper-bg-color)
  3. We set the width and height
  4. The display, align-items and justify-content centers the children of the body (the spinning loader - in this case)

You can read on viewport units and centering with flex or grid

The Spinning Loader Element

What’s going on here with the spinning loader?

We set an equal width and height on the spinning loader so we can get a perfect square.

Then we:

  1. Create a border for the 4 sides with sufficient opacity.
  2. Reduce the opacity on all border sides except for one of them (the left one in this case). That’ll serve as a spinning-indicator. The different color on only one of the border sides is the secret sauce here.
  3. Create a perfect circle by applying a border-radius of 50% to the square.
  4. Make the background of the div transparent.
  5. animation-name - a reference to the animation name (we’ll define that next).
  6. animation-iteration-count: how many cycles should the animation go?
  7. animation-duration: how long should each cycle take?
  8. animation-timing-function: this defines the speed of an animation over time. Here a timing function of linear works for our needs because the speed will be constant.
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Next we define the actual animation using the @keyframes at-rule - applying a rotation transformation from 0 to 360 degrees:

We rotate the loader infinitelyfrom0degto360deg. You can omit the deg in 0deg. Pretty much any unit in CSS can be omitted if its value is 0. Also, using the from and to keywords is another way of writing 0% and 100%.

And there goes our loader animation:

I’ve tweaked the version that’s displayed on this page a little bit, and distilled it down to the essential parts:

The Full Code at a Glance

First, the HTML markup. As promised, only one div 😉:

And next comes the CSS styling:

👍 And, there you have it! There are many ways of creating different kinds of loaders. This is just one of them. Once you start to break down the different parts that make up a loader, you can create them fairly easily. Of course, the only limit is your imagination 🌈. So there, I hope your spinner keeps on rotating!

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