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diff --git a/build/animated-card-tiles/index.html b/build/animated-card-tiles/index.html index 699610d..3a60b70 100644 --- a/build/animated-card-tiles/index.html +++ b/build/animated-card-tiles/index.html @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="color-scheme" content="dark light"> <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> <title>Animated Card Tiles</title> <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> <link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" /> -<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}blockquote{background:rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border-left:4px solid;padding-left:5px;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> </head> <nav> @@ -16,45 +17,30 @@ <main> <h1 id="animated-card-tiles">Animated Card Tiles</h1> - <p>2019-02-27</p> - <p><em>The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive</em> sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let’s build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. </p> - <h2 id="what-we-will-be-building-live-demo">What we will be building (live demo)</h2> - <p>This is the set of animated card tiles we will be creating:</p> - <p><em>(try hovering)</em></p> - <p><a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/rNjBpob">Live CodePen</a></p> - <h2 id="the-html">The HTML</h2> - <p>For the base skeleton of these cards we only need:</p> - <ul> <li><p>a <code>flexbox</code> main container to hold everything</p></li> <li><p>a <code>.card-tile</code> parent element</p></li> <li><p>the inner child element that will display on <code>:hover</code></p></li> <li><p>proper <code>h4</code> and <code>p</code> tags inside that child element</p></li> </ul> - <p>That’s all that is needed - for now. We will be returning to this code shortly to add some extra classes to make our lives easier.</p> - <h2 id="the-css">The CSS</h2> - <p>First we set the main housing container to use <code>flex</code> so we save ourselves the headache of aligning all the cards in a nice row:</p> - <pre><code>.card-tiles-container { display: flex; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0; } </code></pre> - <p>Next we create the default styling for our tile cards and set the <code>transform</code> property to scale the card on <code>:hover</code>:</p> - <pre><code>/* Default card tile styles */ .card-tile { border: 1px solid; @@ -70,15 +56,10 @@ transform: scale(1.1); } </code></pre> - <h3 id="where-are-my-cards">Where are my cards?!</h3> - <p>Don’t panic if you can’t <em>visually</em> see any card elements in your demo yet - that’s to be expected. We will be styling these card elements momentarily.</p> - <p>Our next step is to hide the default inner <code>text-content</code> and only show it on hover. We achieve this by setting it’s position to <code>absolute</code>, placing it’s opacity at 0 and pushing it’s z-index back to -1.</p> - <p>When the user hovers over a main card tile, we change the <code>text-content</code> values of both the opacity and z-index to 1.</p> - <pre><code>/* Card tile text content */ .card-tile .text-content { background: linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.4) 0%, rgba(0,0,0,0.6) 100%); @@ -100,9 +81,7 @@ z-index: 1; } </code></pre> - <p>Finally we add some minor styling for the inner header and paragraph tags:</p> - <pre><code>.card-tile .text-content h4, .card-tile .text-content p { color: #fff; @@ -110,11 +89,8 @@ text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.6); } </code></pre> - <h3 id="dont-forget-mobile">Don’t forget mobile</h3> - <p>We want out UI to stack the cards if users are viewing them on smaller devices:</p> - <pre><code>@media(max-width: 600px) { .card-tiles-container { flex-direction: column; @@ -125,11 +101,8 @@ } } </code></pre> - <h2 id="customizing-each-card">Customizing each card</h2> - <p>Remember how I mentioned that we would be adding more classes to the original HTML? Now is the time. We will be including a simple class on each card tile to provide it’s own custom coloring:</p> - <pre><code><div class="card-tiles-container"> <!-- `Blue` class --> <div class="card-tile blue"> @@ -154,9 +127,7 @@ </div> </div> </code></pre> - <p>And these color classes correlate to some new CSS styling:</p> - <pre><code>/* Blue Card */ .card-tile.blue { background-color: #0093E9; @@ -196,28 +167,19 @@ inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6); } </code></pre> - <h3 id="adding-transitions">Adding transitions</h3> - <p>We can now see the actual cards visually and have the ability to interact with them, but there is a problem - they don’t animate.</p> - <p>Lucky we can target all elements we wish to animate with the <code>transition</code> property, like so:</p> - <pre><code>/* Shared transitions */ .card-tile, .card-tile .text-content { transition: .3s ease all; } </code></pre> - <p>Done and done.</p> - <h2 id="the-final-code">The final code</h2> - <p>To make things easier for reference, I have included all the <code>html</code> and <code>css</code> below. Please feel free to use these cards anywhere you like and change them as you see fit!</p> - <h3 id="html">HTML</h3> - <pre><code><div class="card-tiles-container"> <div class="card-tile blue"> <div class="text-content"> @@ -239,9 +201,7 @@ </div> </div> </code></pre> - <h3 id="css">CSS</h3> - <pre><code>.card-tiles-container { display: flex; font-size: 14px; |