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[[!meta title="Animated Card Tiles"]]
[[!meta date="2019-02-27"]]
*The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive* 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.
## What we will be building (live demo)
This is the set of animated card tiles we will be creating:
*(try hovering)*
[Live CodePen](https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/rNjBpob)
## The HTML
For the base skeleton of these cards we only need:
- a `flexbox` main container to hold everything
- a `.card-tile` parent element
- the inner child element that will display on `:hover`
- proper `h4` and `p` tags inside that child element
---
<div class="card-tiles-container">
<div class="card-tile">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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.
## The CSS
First we set the main housing container to use `flex` so we save ourselves the headache of aligning all the cards in a nice row:
.card-tiles-container {
display: flex;
font-size: 14px;
margin: 20px 0;
}
Next we create the default styling for our tile cards and set the `transform` property to scale the card on `:hover`:
/* Default card tile styles */
.card-tile {
border: 1px solid;
border-radius: 10px;
cursor: pointer;
height: 150px;
margin: 0 10px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
width: 33.33%;
}
.card-tile:hover {
transform: scale(1.1);
}
### Where are my cards?!
Don't panic if you can't *visually* see any card elements in your demo yet - that's to be expected. We will be styling these card elements momentarily.
Our next step is to hide the default inner `text-content` and only show it on hover. We achieve this by setting it's position to `absolute`, placing it's opacity at 0 and pushing it's z-index back to -1.
When the user hovers over a main card tile, we change the `text-content` values of both the opacity and z-index to 1.
/* 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%);
bottom: 10px;
border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
border-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.8),
0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
height: 65px;
left: 10px;
opacity: 0;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
width: calc(100% - 20px);
z-index: -1;
}
.card-tile:hover .text-content {
opacity: 1;
z-index: 1;
}
Finally we add some minor styling for the inner header and paragraph tags:
.card-tile .text-content h4,
.card-tile .text-content p {
color: #fff;
margin: 0;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}
### Don't forget mobile
We want out UI to stack the cards if users are viewing them on smaller devices:
@media(max-width: 600px) {
.card-tiles-container {
flex-direction: column;
}
.card-tile {
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
width: 100%;
}
}
## Customizing each card
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:
<div class="card-tiles-container">
<!-- `Blue` class -->
<div class="card-tile blue">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- `Orange` class -->
<div class="card-tile orange">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- `Green` class -->
<div class="card-tile green">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And these color classes correlate to some new CSS styling:
/* Blue Card */
.card-tile.blue {
background-color: #0093E9;
background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #0093E9 0%, #80D0C7 100%);
border-color: #0093E9;
box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(128,208,199,0.7),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
.card-tile.blue:hover {
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(128,208,199,0.4),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
/* Orange Card */
.card-tile.orange {
background-color: #FAD961;
background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAD961 0%, #F76B1C 100%);
border-color: #F76B1C;
box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(247,107,28,0.7),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
.card-tile.orange:hover {
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(247,107,28,0.4),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
/* Green Card */
.card-tile.green {
background-color: #096e40;
background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #096e40 0%, #2AF598 100%);
border-color: #096e40;
box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(9,110,64,0.7),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
.card-tile.green:hover {
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(9,110,64,0.4),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
### Adding transitions
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.
Lucky we can target all elements we wish to animate with the `transition` property, like so:
/* Shared transitions */
.card-tile,
.card-tile .text-content {
transition: .3s ease all;
}
Done and done.
## The final code
To make things easier for reference, I have included all the `html` and `css` below. Please feel free to use these cards anywhere you like and change them as you see fit!
### HTML
<div class="card-tiles-container">
<div class="card-tile blue">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-tile orange">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-tile green">
<div class="text-content">
<h4>Card Title</h4>
<p>Inner card content text</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
### CSS
.card-tiles-container {
display: flex;
font-size: 14px;
margin: 20px 0;
}
/* Shared transitions */
.card-tile,
.card-tile .text-content {
transition: .3s ease all;
}
/* Default card tile styles */
.card-tile {
border: 1px solid;
border-radius: 10px;
cursor: pointer;
height: 150px;
margin: 0 10px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
width: 33.33%;
}
/* Blue Card */
.card-tile.blue {
background-color: #0093E9;
background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #0093E9 0%, #80D0C7 100%);
border-color: #0093E9;
box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(128,208,199,0.7),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
.card-tile.blue:hover {
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(128,208,199,0.4),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
/* Orange Card */
.card-tile.orange {
background-color: #FAD961;
background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAD961 0%, #F76B1C 100%);
border-color: #F76B1C;
box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(247,107,28,0.7),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
.card-tile.orange:hover {
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(247,107,28,0.4),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
/* Green Card */
.card-tile.green {
background-color: #096e40;
background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #096e40 0%, #2AF598 100%);
border-color: #096e40;
box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(9,110,64,0.7),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
.card-tile.green:hover {
box-shadow: 0 8px 18px rgba(9,110,64,0.4),
inset 0 2px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
}
/* 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%);
bottom: 10px;
border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
border-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.8),
0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
height: 65px;
left: 10px;
opacity: 0;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
width: calc(100% - 20px);
z-index: -1;
}
.card-tile .text-content h4,
.card-tile .text-content p {
color: #fff;
margin: 0;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}
/* All animations on hover */
.card-tile:hover {
transform: scale(1.1);
}
.card-tile:hover .text-content {
opacity: 1;
z-index: 1;
}
@media(max-width: 600px) {
.card-tiles-container {
flex-direction: column;
}
.card-tile {
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
width: 100%;
}
}
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