This is the enhanced eBook version of the printed book. It contains 10 minutes of video demos of key examples from the author, Alexis Goldstein. For web developers building rich web and mobile applications, standards-based CSS3 offers powerful advantages over traditional Flash-based approaches - and since Apple's immensely popular iPad and iPhone don't support Flash, moving to CSS3 has become even more urgent. However, most CSS3 guides focus primarily on the basics, frustrating web developers who want to do sophisticated work. Learning CSS3 Animations and Transitions is the first book focused entirely on creating production-quality rich animations and transitions with CSS3. Leading web development trainer Alexis Goldstein covers everything web developers need to know, teaching through solid examples that help web professionals build their skills one step at a time. Readers will learn how to: Create 2D transforms that serve as the foundation for CSS3 animations Use transitions to make changes come alive Master essential keyframing techniques Combine transitions, transforms, and parallax scrolling in immersive web experiences Transform in 3D, and animate 3D transforms Creating increasingly complex and Flash-style animations Build powerfully effective interactive infographics with CSS3 and HTML5 And much more...

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Add life and depth to your web applications and improve user experience through the discrete use of CSS transitions and animations. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to make page elements move or change in appearance, whether you want to realistically bounce a ball, gradually expand a drop-down menu, or simply bring attention to an element when users hover over it. Short and deep, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Transitions and Animations in CSS, you’ll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it’s released. Why wait? Learn how to make your web pages come alive today. Understand and learn how to implement Disney’s 12 principles of cartoon animation Learn which CSS properties you can animate and use in transitions Apply CSS’s four transition properties and nine animation properties to your CSS elements Use CSS keyframe animations to granularly control an element’s property values Learn details that will save you hours of debugging and megabytes of unnecessary JavaScript

Creating user interfaces that are fun, practical, fluid, and memorable is hard. And existing learning materials don't explain the context of the UI problem that animations are trying to solve. That's where this book comes in. You'll gain a solid technical understanding of how to create awesome animations using CSS and learn how to implement common UI patterns, using practical examples that rely on animations to solve a core problem. Frontend web developers and designers will not only learn important technical details, but also how to apply them to solve real-world problems.

Pro CSS3 Animation will teach you how to use fresh new CSS3 syntax to fully utilize this exciting tool for web design. Using cutting-edge industry standards and drawing on best practices for animation, you will learn how to apply CSS3 animation to transform and bring your page content to life. CSS3 is the way forward for web page interactivity and animation, offering new and exciting options for design. Integrated with HTML5, SVG and mobile design methodologies, you can bring sites into the third dimension to change the perception and appreciation generated in your audience. This book will teach you how to: Enhance your web pages, and your visitor’s experience of your site, with animation Animate images and other page content to create banners, interactive galleries and slideshows Provide fallback and support options for older browsers Chain CSS3 syntax with @media queries, filters and 3D transformations to create responsive animations with depth Provide animation to mobile devices without Flash or JavaScript

This book will help you create practical / usable / wickedly-cool animations in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Each chapter is filled with cleanly explained concepts, beautifully illustrated diagrams, colorific code snippets, and cringeworthy one-liners guaranteed to make your friend who laughs at everything groan. You will start by learning how to create animations and transitions in CSS. Towards the end, you will learn how to create animations in JavaScript by manipulating DOM elements as well as pushing pixels on the canvas. Along the way, you will see numerous small and large examples explaining how what you are learning applies to what is done in the real world. If you ever get stuck or need a group of friendly people to help you out with your animation-related issues, get free online support, demos, video tutorials, and other good stuff at: http: //www.kirupa.com

A link that underlines itself when you hover over it. A menu that flies in when you tap on a button. A word that gets bigger when you click it. These are just a few of the animation effects today's web developers employ to make a user interface (UI) more memorable, engaging, and fun. Designed for learners with a basic familiarity with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, this course teaches you how to use CSS transitions, the tool that makes these types of animations possible. Understand the different ways to animate CSS property changes Learn how to control property changes caused by user interactions or by changes in code Explore cubic-bezier timing functions and transition syntax Understand the interplay between transitions and JavaScript Gain experience creating UI animations like smooth sliding menus and more Kirupa Chinnathambi has spent most of his life trying to teach others to love web development as much as he does. When he isn't writing on kirupa.com or talking about web development, he spends his waking hours helping make the web more awesome as a program manager with the web platform team at Microsoft. Kirupa holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT.