🍣 🚨 🌠 Motion Path: An Introduction to Modern Animation 🔍 ⁉️ 🚯

Ever wanted to create a beautiful animated home page for your website? How about presenting your flagship product at its best with carefully crafted animations? How about drawing users' attention to menu links following an intricate path?

In order to fulfill such wishes, which are relevant for the modern world of web development, the Motion Path Module Level 1 CSS module makes it possible to use a completely new type of animation and allows you to move HTML elements along a given trajectory.

Browser support

Let's start with the unpleasant moments. We'll have to disappoint fans of Safari (OS X and iOS) and Internet Explorer (if there are any): the properties of the Motion Path module are not yet supported by all browsers .

However, at the time of this writing , about 75% of your site visitors have the opportunity to enjoy this modern technology.

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Motion Path

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div {
  offset-path: path('M10 10 H 180 V 180 H 10 Z'); /*   */
}

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div {
  animation: move 1s; /*  "move"   1s */
}

@keyframes move {
  0% { 
    offset-distance: 0%; /*     */
  }
  100% { 
    offset-distance: 100%; /*       */
  }
}

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div {
  offset-path: path('M10 10 H 180 V 180 H 10 Z'); /*   */
}

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<svg ...>
    <path d="M10 10 H 180 V 180 H 10 Z" fill="none" stroke="gray" />
</svg>

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<svg class="svg-path" width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <path d="M10 10 H 180 V 180 H 10 Z">
</svg>

.svg-path {
  stroke: gray;
  stroke-width: 4;
  fill: none;
}

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<div class="motion-container">

  <svg class="svg-path">
    <path>
  </svg>

  <div class="motion-object"></div>

</div>

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/*   .svg-path */
.motion-container {
  position: relative;
}
.svg-path {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

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Motion Path: An Introduction to Modern Animation