Rotating texts

Written byPhuoc Nguyen

Created

26 Aug, 2023

A rotating text effect is a cool animated effect that cycles through a series of different text messages. It's a fantastic way to add some visual interest to your website and draw attention to important content.

In this post, I'll show you how to create a rotating text animation using CSS. It's easier than you might think, so let's get started!

#Markup

First things first, let's set up the basic markup. The layout consists of three layers:

The outermost element, which wraps all the other elements. It has only one child node, which has the CSS class `container__inner`.
The middle layer, which contains the `container__inner` element.
The innermost layer, which contains individual elements for each text you want to rotate through.

<div class="container">
    <div class="container__inner">
        <div class="container__text">iPhone</div>
        <div class="container__text">iPad</div>
        <div class="container__text">Chrome</div>
        <div class="container__text">Firefox</div>
        <div class="container__text">Safari</div>
    </div>
</div>

The container and text elements should be the same height. Plus, we need to add the `overflow: hidden` style to keep our text from overflowing outside the container.

.container {
    overflow: hidden;
    height: 4rem;
}
.container__text {
    height: 4rem;
}

#Rotating effect

To animate text elements one by one, we can create keyframes called `slide`. In each phase, the element will move up to the same height as the current text. Since each text has a height of `4rem` and there are 5 text elements in total, the animation could move the target element up by a multiple of `4rem` which is `4rem`, `8rem`, `12rem`, and `16rem`, respectively.

At the end of the animation, the target will slide back down to its original position, revealing the first text element as the beginning phrase.

@keyframes slide {
    0%, 10% {
        transform: translateY(0);
    }
    20%, 30% {
        transform: translateY(-4rem);
    }
    40%, 50% {
        transform: translateY(-8rem);
    }
    60%, 70% {
        transform: translateY(-12rem);
    }
    80%, 90% {
        transform: translateY(-16rem);
    }
    100% {
        transform: translateY(0);
    }
}

Finally, the inner element will run the animation for 10 seconds using the linear timing function, and with the `infinite` value set, the animation will loop indefinitely.

.container__inner {
    animation: slide 10s linear infinite;
}

Check out the rotating text animation in action!

To add more text, just include additional `div` elements with the class `container__text` and adjust the position in the `slide` keyframes accordingly. It's that simple!

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