Text color breaks CSS transition - html

I cannot figure out why this breaks it. I have an a element which uses CSS transitions to fade into a gradient background on hover. For whatever reason whenever I set the text color on hover to white the transition breaks?
.social-item {
margin-left: 0.25vw;
padding: 0.1vw;
transition: 0.2s;
color: white;
}
.social-item:hover {
background: linear-gradient(to left, #8E2DE2, #DC0486);
color: white;
}
<i class="fab fa-keybase"></i> Keybase
I'm also using Bulma and Font Awesome.

You can't simply make transitions with background gradients.
Animatable CSS Properties
Use pseudo-element and do an opacity transform.
.social-item {
position: relative;
color: white;
z-index: 1;
}
.social-item::before {
position: absolute;
content: "";
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
background-image: linear-gradient(to left, #8e2de2, #dc0486);
z-index: -1;
transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
opacity: 0;
}
.social-item:hover::before {
opacity: 1;
}
<i class="fab fa-keybase"></i> Keybase
A nice article about this.
Thank you!

What I figured your problem to be is that you're trying to do gradient transition. It is not supported. But if you want to simulate it, you can use the opacity property in css. Add opacity: 0 to the main element (.social-item) and opacity: 1 to the hover state (.social-events:hover). Hence the transition: 0.2 will apply on the opacity, as it is supported, thus simulating the desired outcome.
Thus the final css, shall be.
.social-item {
margin-left: 0.25vw;
padding: 0.1vw;
transition: 0.2s;
color: white;
opacity:0;
}
.social-item:hover {
background: linear-gradient(to left, #8E2DE2, #DC0486);
color: white;
opacity: 1;
}
If you actually want to have the thing display normally, and not just on hover, then opacity: 0 wont work for you. You have to use the pseudo-selector :after to add a dummy element to the main class and work all the transitions and background gradient stuff on that. Here is a codepen example.

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Hover button Transition Delay

I'm maybe 2 weeks into coding so apologies if I don't format correctly (code and question itself).I am trying to set a delay for the time it takes the buttons to switch text. Thank you for the help!
I've tried googling this and youtube with no luck.
I have tried adding
transition
transition-delay
body{
background-color: black;
}
.column{
position: fixed;
left:0;
bottom:0;
top:55px;
width:72px;
z-index: 200;
padding-top: 20px;
}
.about,
.skills {
font-size:72px;
width: 10em;
text-align: left;
border:none;
background-color: black;
color:red;
}
.about:hover span {
display: none;
}
.about:hover:after {
transition-delay: 3s;
content: "ABOUT";
}
.skills:hover span {
display: none
}
.skills:hover:after {
content: "SKILLS"
}
<h1>
<div class="column">
<button class="about" data-hover="ABOUT">
<span>
I
</span>
</button>
<button class="skills">
<span>
AM
</span>
</button>
</div>
</h1>
First of all, I would look into the html semantics a bit. Having div tags inside an h1 doesn't make much sense. So consider changing the h1 to a div. Also, the 3s delay is enormous. Think of something a bit faster, like 300ms.
The real issue is that display states and transition don't really work together since it swaps between states like block and none. But there are other solutions to this. You could use position: relative; on a parent div and give the children position: absolute. This way, you could make the transitions with opacity instead.
I have made an example for you so you can get the idea. I have commented on the CSS so you can follow up on what is happening.
/* Lets give our spans some styling: */
span{
font-size: 30px;
font-weight: 600;
font-family: sans-serif;
margin-bottom: 2rem;
max-width: 60ch;
}
/* Lets make the "container" position relative,
this way the absolute children will stay inside the container */
.hover-effect{
position: relative;
}
/* Let's give both of the children position absolute */
.hover-effect span{
position: absolute;
color: black;
opacity: 100%;
transition: 300ms ease-in 300ms; /* Delay: 300ms*/
}
/* Let’s override the previous.
This actually happens when we remove the hover, so we want to
trigger this animation first, hence the delay of 0ms*/
.hover-effect span.on-hover{
opacity: 0%;
transition: 300ms ease-in 0ms;
}
/* When we hover the container, let's change both spans */
.hover-effect:hover span{
color: red;
opacity: 0%;
transition-delay: 0ms;
}
/* Let’s override the previous.
When we hover on the container, the span with the class "on-hover"
becomes visible, and we wait 300ms before it happens so that the
"disappearing" animation gets its time to trigger. */
.hover-effect:hover span.on-hover{
opacity: 100%;
transition-delay: 300ms;
}
<div class="hover-effect">
<span>Try and hover over me</span>
<span class="on-hover">Try and remove the hover</span>
</div>

Strange visual glitch with button and dynamically changed height

I have a button with a ::before pseudo element as a background, to achieve an animated hover effect, and above this button there's a carousel with adaptive height.
My problem is that when the user changes the slide to another with a different height, the button realocation shows some problems, and the worst is that I can't reproduce it on Codepen (I tried here but the glitch is not happening), so I captured the glitch and posted on YouTube, you can see the video clicking here.
By the way, this is the relevant CSS I have in the button:
.btn-block{
position: relative;
transition: .15s ease-out;
transition-property: color;
}
.btn-block::before{
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0;
z-index: -1;
background-clip: content-box;
transition: .15s ease-out;
transition-property: background, padding, border-radius;
}
.btn-block:hover::before{
padding: 8px 10px;
}
Is there something I can do about this glitch, or is there another way to achieve the hover effect I want?

How can I implement a spoiler quote with just CSS?

I have a blockquote like this:
<blockquote class="spoiler">Soopah sekkrit!</blockquote>
I want to make it hidden, only showing it if the user hovers over it. I'm doing it now with JS:
blockquote.addEventListener('mouseover', function() {
this.style.height = this.offsetHeight + 'px';
this.dataset.contents = this.innerHTML;
this.innerHTML = '';
});
blockquote.addEventListener('mouseout', function() {
this.style.height = '';
this.innerHTML = this.dataset.contents;
});
Is there a better way to do this, with CSS?
It has to keep its background-color, size, and work for contents with custom colors. If possible, I'd also like to animate it so the contents fade in gradually.
Here's something very similar to what I use in SOUP:
.spoiler, .spoiler > * { transition: color 0.5s, opacity 0.5s }
.spoiler:not(:hover) { color: transparent }
.spoiler:not(:hover) > * { opacity: 0 }
/* fix weird transitions on Chrome: */
blockquote, blockquote > *:not(a) { color: black }
.spoiler, .spoiler > * { transition: color 0.5s, opacity 0.5s }
.spoiler:not(:hover) { color: transparent }
.spoiler:not(:hover) > * { opacity: 0 }
/* fix weird transitions on Chrome: */
blockquote, blockquote > *:not(a) { color: black }
/* some basic bg styles for demonstration purposes */
blockquote { background: #fed; margin: 1em 0; padding: 8px; border-left: 2px solid #cba }
code { background: #ccc; padding: 2px }
img { vertical-align: middle }
<blockquote class="spoiler">
Soopah sekkrit text with <code>code</code> and links and <img src="//sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo-med.png" width="100" /> images!
<p>You can also have paragraphs in here.</p>
<ul><li>And lists too!</li></ul>
<blockquote class="spoiler">Even nested spoilers work!</blockquote>
</blockquote>
This is somewhat simpler than your own solution, and works for arbitrary content including images and even nested spoilers! (See demo snippet above.)
Alas, this method seems to suffer from weird transition effects on Chrome if any of the child elements of the spoiler have color: inherit. (Basically, what's happening is that these elements will have both their text color set to transparent and their opacity set to 0. Because opacities combine multiplicatively, the combined transition will thus appear slower — halfway through the fade-in, when the element itself is at 50% opacity, the text in it is at 50% × 50% = 25% opacity.) I've added an extra CSS rule to the example above to fix this, but it does make things a bit complicated.
What I actually do in SOUP is slightly different. I wrap the contents of each spoiler in an extra inner <div>, which lets me simplify the CSS further to just:
.spoiler > div { opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.5s }
.spoiler:hover > div { opacity: 1 }
.spoiler > div { opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.5s }
.spoiler:hover > div { opacity: 1 }
/* some basic bg styles for demonstration purposes */
blockquote { background: #fed; margin: 1em 0; padding: 8px; border-left: 2px solid #cba }
code { background: #ccc; padding: 2px }
img { vertical-align: middle }
<blockquote class="spoiler"><div>
Soopah sekkrit text with <code>code</code> and links and <img src="//sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo-med.png" width="100" /> images!
<p>You can also have paragraphs in here.</p>
<ul><li>And lists too!</li></ul>
<blockquote class="spoiler"><div>Even nested spoilers work!</div></blockquote>
<div></blockquote>
The main advantages of this method are simplicity and robustness: I don't have to use :not() selectors, improving compatibility with older browsers, and the transition styles can't conflict with other transitions possibly defined on the elements inside the spoiler. This method also doesn't suffer from the color transition weirdness on Chrome described above, since it only uses opacity transitions.
Overall, this is the method I recommend. The disadvantage, of course, is that you need to include the extra <div>s in your HTML.
Ps. Please consider also providing some way to make the spoilers permanently visible, especially for touch screen users who may find it very hard to "hover" the cursor over an element. A simple solution is to use a JavaScript click event handler to toggle the spoiler class, e.g. like this (using jQuery):
$('.spoiler').on( 'click', function (e) {
$(this).toggleClass('spoiler');
e.stopPropagation();
} );
$('.spoiler').on( 'click', function (e) {
$(this).toggleClass('spoiler');
e.stopPropagation();
} );
.spoiler > div { opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.5s }
.spoiler:hover > div { opacity: 1 }
/* some basic bg styles for demonstration purposes */
blockquote { background: #fed; margin: 1em 0; padding: 8px; border-left: 2px solid #cba }
code { background: #ccc; padding: 2px }
img { vertical-align: middle }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<blockquote class="spoiler"><div>
Soopah sekkrit text with <code>code</code> and links and <img src="//sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo-med.png" width="100" /> images!
<p>You can also have paragraphs in here.</p>
<ul><li>And lists too!</li></ul>
<blockquote class="spoiler"><div>Even nested spoilers work!</div></blockquote>
<div></blockquote>
or, if you'd prefer to use delegated event handling (so that you don't have to keep adding new click handlers every time you load new content that includes spoilers via Ajax):
$(document).on( 'click', '.spoiler, .spoiler-off', function (e) {
$(this).toggleClass('spoiler').toggleClass('spoiler-off');
e.stopPropagation();
} );
$(document).on( 'click', '.spoiler, .spoiler-off', function (e) {
$(this).toggleClass('spoiler').toggleClass('spoiler-off');
e.stopPropagation();
} );
.spoiler > div { opacity: 0; transition: opacity 0.5s }
.spoiler:hover > div { opacity: 1 }
/* some basic bg styles for demonstration purposes */
blockquote { background: #fed; margin: 1em 0; padding: 8px; border-left: 2px solid #cba }
code { background: #ccc; padding: 2px }
img { vertical-align: middle }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<blockquote class="spoiler"><div>
Soopah sekkrit text with <code>code</code> and links and <img src="//sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo-med.png" width="100" /> images!
<p>You can also have paragraphs in here.</p>
<ul><li>And lists too!</li></ul>
<blockquote class="spoiler"><div>Even nested spoilers work!</div></blockquote>
<div></blockquote>
(These should work with either of the CSS variants shown above.)
Yes, this is possible with CSS. Essentially, you want to make all of the contents be invisible. In CSS, this means transparent.
First use the hover pseudo-class inside the not pseudo-class:
.spoiler:not(:hover)
But we also need to select all the child elements of the hovered spoiler, to set their colors and backgrounds:
.spoiler:not(:hover) *
And we set both the color and background (only for the child elements) to transparent to make them invisible to the user. All together:
.spoiler:not(:hover), .spoiler:not(:hover) * { color: transparent }
.spoiler:not(:hover) * { background: transparent }
code { padding: 2px; background: #bbb }
a { color: #00f }
Hover: <blockquote class="spoiler">Some stuff <a>and a colored link</a> <code>and some code!</code></blockquote>
We can also add a transition to make it smoother:
.spoiler { transition: color 0.5s } /* we have to put this outside the :hover to make it work fading both in and out */
.spoiler:not(:hover), .spoiler:not(:hover) * { color: transparent }
.spoiler * { transition: color 0.5s, background 0.5s }
.spoiler:not(:hover) * { background: transparent }
code { padding: 2px; background: #bbb; color: #000 } /* add color to prevent double transition */
a { color: #00f }
Hover: <blockquote class="spoiler">Some stuff <a>and a colored link</a> <code>and some code!</code></blockquote>
To make it obvious to the user that the blockquote is hoverable, you can add some text with the ::after pseudo-element to be shown when the blockquote isn't hovered:
.spoiler { transition: color 0.5s; position: relative } /* relative position for positioning the pseudo-element */
.spoiler:not(:hover), .spoiler:not(:hover) * { color: transparent }
.spoiler * { transition: color 0.5s, background 0.5s }
.spoiler:not(:hover) * { background: transparent }
.spoiler::after {
content: 'hover to view spoiler';
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0;
color: transparent;
}
.spoiler:not(:hover)::after {
color: #666;
transition: color 0.3s 0.3s; /* delayed transition to keep the text from overlapping */
}
code { padding: 2px; background: #bbb; color: #000 }
a { color: #00f }
<blockquote class="spoiler">
Some stuff <a>and a colored link</a> <code>and some code!</code>
<blockquote class="spoiler">Nesting bonus!</blockquote>
</blockquote>
For stuff like images, svgs (tho inline SVG can be very granularly controlled), canvases, and all that fancy stuff, instead of color you'd have to use opacity. We can make it work with these by adding this:
.spoiler img { transition: opacity 0.5s, background 0.5s }
.spoiler:not(:hover) img { opacity: 0 }
Here's a strategy that works pretty well, looks nice, and has pretty clean transitions
.spoiler {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
cursor: help;
}
.spoiler::before {
content: 'psst\02026'; /* … */
position: absolute;
left: -2px;
top: -2px;
right: -2px;
bottom: -2px;
border-radius: 1px;
font-size: .9rem;
color: #e6578c;
background: #ffe5e5;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
text-align: center;
opacity: 1;
transition: opacity 0.7s ease, transform 0.3s ease; /* hide faster than reveal */
}
.spoiler:hover::before {
opacity: 0;
transform: translateY(-50%)rotateX(80deg);
transition: opacity 1.0s ease, transform 0.5s ease; /* slower reveal */
}
If you style the parent block with opacity: 0 without hover, then you can't add any styles to illustrate what part of the page the user should be hovering over.
Instead, if we add a ::before element that covers up the child content, then we can fade it out on hover and still provide a visual indication of where to go.
Demo in Stack Snippets
.spoiler {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
cursor: help;
}
.spoiler::before {
content: 'psst\02026'; /* … */
position: absolute;
left: -2px;
top: -2px;
right: -2px;
bottom: -2px;
border-radius: 1px;
font-size: .9rem;
color: #e6578c;
background: #ffe5e5;
text-align: center;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
opacity: 1;
transition: opacity 0.7s ease, transform 0.3s ease; /* hide faster than reveal */
}
.spoiler:hover::before {
opacity: 0;
transform: translateY(-50%)rotateX(80deg);
transition: opacity 1.0s ease, transform 0.5s ease; /* slower reveal */
}
/* demo styles */
blockquote {
margin: 0
}
<p>
Inline Spoiler <span class="spoiler" > Word </span>
</p>
<p class="spoiler">
Paragraph Text Block of a Spoiler
</p>
<blockquote class="spoiler">
Block quote spoiler with super long text that wraps and wraps and wraps some more.
Block quote spoiler with super long text that wraps and wraps and wraps some more.
Block quote spoiler with super long text that wraps and wraps and wraps some more.
</blockquote>

Hiding an element after transition using CSS only

I have been trying to design a login form and the button requires a little transition effect. There is one complexity though.
Background: I originally copied this idea from here: original form.
Notice how there is no padding (left and right) on the main container, now in my demo it was critical to have padding left and this creates a problem (will explain further).
Now here's my demo:
My version of login form (don't be scared of the 108 lines of CSS code; I'll paste the code that pertains to my problem below).
So the code that's relevant to this problem is as follows.
The HTML code:
<button class="login-button"><span>SEND</span></button>
The CSS code:
.login-button{
width: 100%;
outline: none;
border:none;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0;
margin:0;
transition:.3s;
}
.login-input , .login-button{
height: 50px;
line-height: 40px;
transition:.3s;
}
.login-button span{
display: block;
background:red;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
left: 0;
transition:.3s;
position: relative;
}
.login-button span:before{
content: 'ok';
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
display: block;
}
.login-button:hover span:before{
content: 'OK To go now';
position: absolute;
/*left: 0%;*/
text-align: center;
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
Now if I go to the CSS styling for the main container:
I.E.
.main-login{
min-width: 200px;
max-width: 400px;
background: #533e69;
margin: 100px auto;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
padding: 0 20px;
}
and take off the padding, then the problem is solved and the transition looks perfect.
The problem
My requirements are such that I need that padding, so now what happens is when you hover over the button and the span element moves left:-100%, it's still visible in the main container.
Proposed solution
I would like it if this problem can be solved in CSS only as I don't really like cluttering my doc's with JS. So how about this.
I am new to CSS, so my solution may be less elegant:
When hovered over the button, the span overs left:-100% and than if the span can be set to display:none. Sounds simple, but my limited knowledge of CSS has got me stuck here.
You need to set the background to be transparent. It's not possible for a transition to animate the display property.
Add this css code, and it should work:
.login-button:hover span{
-webkit-transition-delay: 1s; /* Safari */
transition-delay: 1s;
transition: 2s;
background: rgba(1,1,1,0);
}
See your updated fiddle here.
Edit: I cleaned up the css a bit:
.login-button:hover span{
transition: 0.3s;
background: transparent;
}
Fiddle is here.
Transition properties are comma delimited in all browsers that support transitions:
.nav a {
-webkit-transition: color .2s, text-shadow .2s;
/* And so on... */
}
Ease is the default, so you don't have to specify it. If you really want linear, you will need to specify it, i.e. -webkit-transition: color .2s linear, text-shadow .2s linear;
Or try this
transition-property: width;
transition-duration: 1s;
transition-timing-function: linear;
transition-delay: 2s;
This is the link

Using CSS to make button animate

I am trying to make two buttons animate from small to large on hover using CSS. I have the following which does make the button change but without no animation. (button.png and buttonHover.png are the same pixel width and height - but the images are of a small button with a transparent surround and a large button).
It may well be that this is the wrong way to do it - this is the first time I have trued this.
a.button {
background: url(button.png) no-repeat 0 0;
width: 150px;
height: 62px;
display: block;
line-height: 62px;
text-align: center;
font-size:9px;
color: white;
}
a.button:hover{
background: url(buttonPressed.png) no-repeat 0 0;
font-size:14px;
-webkit-animation: myButton 1s; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
animation: myButton 1s;
}
/* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
#-webkit-keyframes myButton {
background: url(buttonHover.png) no-repeat 0 0;
font-size:14px;
}
/* Standard syntax */
#keyframes myButton {
background: url(buttonPressed.png) no-repeat 0 0;
font-size:14px;
}
No need for keyframes; use transition.
As Zach mentioned in the comments, background images can't be animated between. You should recreate the backgrounds in CSS.
From the MDN:
The CSS transition property is a shorthand property for transition-property, transition-duration, transition-timing-function, and transition-delay. It allows to define the transition between two states of an element. Different states may be defined using pseudo-classes like :hover or :active or dynamically set using JavaScript.
Example
In this example, the "all" indicates that every difference between the normal state and :hover that can be animated should transition over 0.5 seconds. Here is a complete list of animated properties.
Use the appropriate browser prefixes before the non-prefixed transition as needed. Depending on your needs, browser prefixes could be unnecessary. Have a look over here on caniuse.com for an overview of browser support.
a.button {
background: #000;
width: 150px;
height: 62px;
display: block;
line-height: 62px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 9px;
color: #FFF;
transition: all 0.5s;
}
a.button:hover {
background: #F00;
font-size: 14px;
}
<a class="button">Button</a>
Im leaving you a working example on how to implement it. Hope it helps.
button {
width : 100px;
height: 20px;
-webkit-transition: 1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: 1s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: 1s ease-in-out;
transition: 1s ease-in-out;
}
button:hover {
width : 150px;
height: 30px;
}
<button>
JSfiddle