Need to create linear gradient animation in body but it uses cpu a lot which causes fans to run loudly.
I found this solution
animated linear gradient devouring CPU usage
this trick lowers cpu usage down to 3-5% which is great. But when you resize the window it create a bug in the background.
Tried to create resize function because I guess when you resize the window the width property changes which causes the bug. But it didn't work out.
[Codepen](https://codepen.io/iclassici/pen/poPXRyp)
In doing:
body.classList.remove('bg');
body.classList.add('bg');
actually nothing happens because the class is restored before the system has had a chance to recalculate/redraw stuff.
You'll need to remove the class as you have done, and then wait before reinstating it. Try setTimeout or requestAnimationFrame.
If you could make you code into a snippet which we can run in your question that would help us test things and give a fuller answer.
UPDATE: taking the code given in the codepen, this snippet makes a change to the resize function, removing a bganimation class, setting a short timeout and reinstating the class. This ensures that the system will reset whatever parameters it is giving the GPU.
Note: on my reasonably powerful laptop, Windows 10, the animation of the background is taking less than 2% CPU mostly and around 20% of the GPU.
window.addEventListener("resize", myFunction);
function myFunction() {
body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
body.classList.remove('bganimation');
setTimeout(function() {
body.classList.add('bganimation');
}, 100);
}
.bg {
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
}
.bg::before {
content: '';
position: fixed;
z-index: -2;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 600%;
height: 100%;
bottom: 0;
background: linear-gradient(45deg, #F17C58, #E94584, #24AADB, #27DBB1, #FFDC18, #FF3706);
background-size: 100% 100vh;
background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
}
.bganimation {
animation: gradient 16s linear infinite alternate;
}
#keyframes gradient {
0% {
transform: translateX(0);
}
100% {
transform: translateX(-400vw);
/* 5/6x100% */
}
}
<body class="bg bganimation">
</body>
I am having an issue with Chrome (v. 67) at OSX and movement animations. I've prepared JS fiddle with it:
https://jsfiddle.net/5m173ghv/31/
If you open it at safari it is working very good. But, when you will use chrome it has little lags when moving.
I cannot describe it a bit more... You need to open it and try yourself on the big screen... Please look carefully at white box. You will see that this box has sometimes something like lags or small jumps(?)...
This is very weird. I've tried almost every answer from the internet (trust me ;) ).
I also tried:
Change transforms at animation into position (left)
Change animations into transitions
adding additional parameters (backface-visibility, perspective, will-change...)
Changing sequences of animation to have more steps (per 10%)
Debugging on chrome dev tools (~30-40fps)
Adding transforms like translateZ(0)
You think that this is chrome bug or maybe my fault? Do you have any solution for that?
Here you have code:
HTML
<span class="spark"></div>
SCSS
body {
background-color: black;
}
#keyframes left-to-right {
0% {
transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
}
100% {
transform: translate3d(50vw,0,0);
}
}
.spark {
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
width: 322px;
height: 500px;
background-color: white;
transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
backface-visibility: hidden;
perspective: 1000px;
animation: left-to-right 5s infinite linear;
will-change: transform;
pointer-events: none;
user-select: none;
}
I have a question/problem, regarding the animations in CSS3. No matter what I try, I can't achieve a smooth animation when my screen is set to 120hz. There's a laggy effect from time to time. If I set the screen to 60hz, it's fine. I was able to reproduce the issue on all the major browsers. Here's a link with a simple animation to illustrate the problem : https://jsfiddle.net/na1dx182/
<div id="container">
<div id="track"></div>
</div>
#container {
width: 600px;
height: 400px;
background: #ddd;
}
#track {
position: absolute;
width: 8px;
height: 400px;
background: #242424;
-webkit-animation: bounce 1s linear infinite alternate;
-moz-animation: bounce 1s linear infinite alternate;
animation: bounce 1s linear infinite alternate;
}
#keyframes bounce {
from {
transform: translateX(0);
}
to {
transform: translateX(600px);
}
}
My first question is, is it related to my screen only, or anyone else with a 120hz screen is experiencing this issue too ? When I look at the animation, it's like some frames are skipped sometimes, there's a laggy effect from time to time. I have the feeling the moving bar is doing some micro jumps.
If this issue is also found by others, is there a way to fix this ? I tried many different things, including the use of transitions, of requestAnimationframe, of setInterval, but the problem is always the same. I also tried other tricks or CSS properties, like translateZ(0), backface-visibility, will-change, but no luck.
Edit : It seems like unplugging and reconnect my screens has almost fixed the issue.
This is a strange problem that taken a couple of days worth of Googling many 'fixes' but am yet to find a solution to this strange problem. Here goes.
I have a fixed positioned Menu Button at the top of the screen that when clicked simply allows another fixed postion full screen menu to slide down from the top of the screen. Inspired by the solution at this site:
http://gardenestudio.com.br/
here is the css styles for the overlay menu which contains a single child ul as a test.
.overlay{
width: auto;
height: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
background: rgb(59, 69, 97);
transform: translateZ(0);
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
transform: translate(0,-100%);
-webkit-transform: translate(0,-100%);
display: inline-block;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
backface-visibility: hidden;
}
With the following 'SlideIn' and 'SlideOut' keyframes applied
#-webkit-keyframes overlayAnimateIn {
0% {
transform: translate(0,-100%);
-webkit-transform: translate(0,-100%);
}
100% {
transform: translate(0,0%);
-webkit-transform: translate(0,0%);
}
}
#-webkit-keyframes overlayAnimateOut {
0% {
transform: translate(0, 0%);
-webkit-transform: translate(0,0%);
}
100% {
transform: translate(0,-100%);
-webkit-transform: translate(0,-100%);
}
}
However, the problem I am having is that on desktop the performance of the animation is fine.
But on mobile devices.. from Sony Xperia Z2 Compact (vanilla install) etc .. the performance of the animation is terrible.. for the first 10 seconds then after that time interval, the animation is smooth as silk. Note: the gardenstudio solution is smooth at all times.
I have gone through a number of optimisations and reductions of my CSS and HTML to try to find what is causing this problem.
looking at the http://gardenestudio.com.br/ example, i have reduced my stylesheet to around 800 lines (the minimum required to render the page correctly) and the HTML markup is 460 Lines (less than gardenstudio)
If I completely reduce the HTML (leaving the css) to virtually nothing, the animation is smooth.
If I reduce the css (leaving the markup) the animation is smooth..
Something tells me that there is something in my markup and/or css that is computationally expensive and causing a bottleneck.
Can anyone suggest any help finding the bottleneck or if there are any other suggested solutions, that would be great :)
Well after 2 and a half days of reducing, removing and optimising I have found the culprit for now.
We have a body content wrapper that has a Box Shadow applied to it.
Removing this Box shadow solved the problem and the animation is now smooth as anything.
I will continue to slowly re-add all the removed styles etc and report back if I find out why this is causing such a major performance hit.
So, I understand how to perform both CSS3 transitions and animations. What is not clear, and I've googled, is when to use which.
For example, if I want to make a ball bounce, it is clear that animation is the way to go. I could provide keyframes and the browser would do the intermediates frames and I'll have a nice animation going.
However, there are cases when a said effect can be achieved either way. A simple and common example would be implement the facebook style sliding drawer menu:
This effect can be achieved through transitions like so:
.sf-page {
-webkit-transition: -webkit-transform .2s ease-out;
}
.sf-page.out {
-webkit-transform: translateX(240px);
}
http://jsfiddle.net/NwEGz/
Or, through animations like so:
.sf-page {
-webkit-animation-duration: .4s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
}
.sf-page.in {
-webkit-animation-name: sf-slidein;
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
}
.sf-page.out {
-webkit-animation-name: sf-slideout;
-webkit-transform: translateX(240px);
}
#-webkit-keyframes sf-slideout {
from { -webkit-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); }
to { -webkit-transform: translate3d(240px, 0, 0); }
}
#-webkit-keyframes sf-slidein {
from { -webkit-transform: translate3d(240px, 0, 0); }
to { -webkit-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); }
}
http://jsfiddle.net/4Z5Mr/
With HTML that looks like so:
<div class="sf-container">
<div class="sf-page in" id="content-container">
<button type="button">Click Me</button>
</div>
<div class="sf-drawer">
</div>
</div>
And, this accompanying jQuery script:
$("#content-container").click(function(){
$("#content-container").toggleClass("out");
// below is only required for css animation route
$("#content-container").toggleClass("in");
});
What I'd like to understand is what are the pros and cons of these approaches.
One obvious difference is that animating is taking a whole lot more code.
Animation gives better flexibility. I can have different animation for sliding out and in
Is there something that can be said about performance. Do both take advantage of h/w acceleration?
Which is more modern and the way going forward
Anything else you could add?
It looks like you've got a handle on how to do them, just not when to do them.
A transition is an animation, just one that is performed between two distinct states - i.e. a start state and an end state. Like a drawer menu, the start state could be open and the end state could be closed, or vice versa.
If you want to perform something that does not specifically involve a start state and an end state, or you need more fine-grained control over the keyframes in a transition, then you've got to use an animation.
I'll let the definitions speak for themselves (according to Merriam-Webster):
Transition: A movement, development, or evolution from one form, stage, or style to another
Animation: Endowed with life or the qualities of life; full of movement
The names appropriately fit their purposes in CSS
So, the example you gave should use transitions because it is only a change from one state to another
A shorter answer, straight on point:
Transition:
Needs a triggering element (:hover, :focus etc.)
Only 2 animation states (start and end)
Used for simpler animations (buttons, dropdown menus and so on)
Easier to create but not so many animation/effect possibilities
Animation #keyframes:
It can be used for endless animations
Can set more than 2 states
No boundaries
Both use CPU acceleration for a much smoother effect.
Animation takes a lot more code unless you're using the same transition over and over, in which case an animation would be better.
You can have different effects for sliding in and out without an animation. Just have a different transition on both the original rule and the modified rule:
.two-transitions {
transition: all 50ms linear;
}
.two-transitions:hover {
transition: all 800ms ease-out;
}
Animations are just abstractions of transitions, so if the transition is hardware accelerated, the animation will be. It makes no difference.
Both are very modern.
My rule of thumb is if I use the same transition three times, it should probably be an animation. This is easier to maintain and alter in the future. But if you are only using it once, it is more typing to make the animation and maybe not worth it.
Animations are just that - a smooth behavior of set of properties. In other words it specifies what should happen to a set of element's properties. You define an animation and describe how this set of properties should behave during the animation process.
Transitions on the other side specify how a property (or properties) should perform their change. Each change. Setting a new value for certain property, be it with JavaScript or CSS, is always a transition, but by default it is not smooth. By setting transition in the css style you define different (smooth) way to perform these changes.
It can be said that transitions define a default animation that should be performed every time the specified property has changed.
Is there something that can be said about performance. Do both take
advantage of h/w acceleration?
In modern browsers, h/w acceleration occurs for the properties filter, opacity and transform. This is for both CSS Animations and CSS Transitions.
.yourClass {
transition: all 0.5s;
color: #00f;
margin: 50px;
font-size: 20px;
cursor: pointer;
}
.yourClass:hover {
color: #f00;
}
<p class="yourClass"> Hover me </p>
CSS3 Transitions brought frontend developers a significant ability to modify the appearance and behavior of an element as relative to a change in his state. CSS3 animations extends this ability and allow to modify the appearance and behavior of an element in multiple keyframes, so transitions provides us the ability to change from one state to another, while that animations can set multiple points of transition within different keyframes.
So, let's look at this transition sample where applied a transition with 2 points, start point at left: 0 and an end point at left: 500px
.container {
background: gainsboro;
border-radius: 6px;
height: 300px;
position: relative;
}
.ball {
transition: left 2s linear;
background: green;
border-radius: 50%;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
width: 50px;
left: 0px;
}
.container:hover .ball{
left: 500px;
}
<div class="container">
<figure class="ball"></figure>
</div>
The above can be also created via animation like so:
#keyframes slide {
0% {
left: 0;
}
100% {
left: 500px;
}
}
.container {
background: gainsboro;
border-radius: 6px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
}
.ball {
background: green;
border-radius: 50%;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
width: 50px;
}
.container:hover .ball {
animation: slide 2s linear;
}
<div class="container">
<figure class="ball"></figure>
</div>
And if we would like another in-between point, it would be possible to achieve only via animation, we can add another keyFrame to achieve this and this is the real power of animation over transition:
#keyframes slide {
0% {
left: 0;
}
50% {
left: 250px;
top: 100px;
}
100% {
left: 500px;
}
}
.container {
background: gainsboro;
border-radius: 6px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
}
.ball {
background: green;
border-radius: 50%;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
width: 50px;
}
.container:hover .ball {
animation: slide 2s linear;
}
<div class="container">
<figure class="ball"></figure>
</div>
transition can go reverse from middle of the way, but animation replay the keyframes from start to end.
const transContainer = document.querySelector(".trans");
transContainer.onclick = () => {
transContainer.classList.toggle("trans-active");
}
const animContainer = document.querySelector(".anim");
animContainer.onclick = () => {
if(animContainer.classList.contains("anim-open")){
animContainer.classList.remove("anim-open");
animContainer.classList.add("anim-close");
}else{
animContainer.classList.remove("anim-close");
animContainer.classList.add("anim-open");
}
}
*{
font: 16px sans-serif;
}
p{
width: 100%;
background-color: #ff0;
}
.sq{
width: 80px;
height: 80px;
margin: 10px;
background-color: #f00;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
.trans{
transition: width 3s;
}
.trans-active{
width: 200px;
}
.anim-close{
animation: closingAnimation 3s forwards;
}
.anim-open{
animation: openingAnimation 3s forwards;
}
#keyframes openingAnimation {
from{width: 80px}
to{width: 200px}
}
#keyframes closingAnimation {
from{width: 200px}
to{width: 80px}
}
<p>Try click them before reaching end of movement:</p>
<div class="sq trans">Transition</div>
<div class="sq anim">Animation</div>
in addition, if you want the javascript to listen for end of transition, you'll get one event for each property that you change.
for example transition: width 0.5s, height 0.5s. the transitionend event will trigger two times, one for width and one for height.
Just a summary, thanks to this post, there are 5 main differences between CSS transitions vs CSS animations:
1/ CSS transitions:
Animate an object from one state to another, implicitly by browser
Cannot loop
Need a trigger to run (:hover, :focus)
Simple, less code, limited powerful
Easy to work in JavaScript
2/ CSS animations:
Freely switch between multiple states, with various properties and time frame
Can loop
Don’t need any kind of external trigger
More complex, more code, more flexible
Hard to work in JavaScript due to syntax for manipulating keyframes
I believe CSS3 animation vs CSS3 transition will give you the answer you want.
Basically below are some takeaways :
If performance is a concern, then choose CSS3 transition.
If state is to be maintained after each transition, then choose CSS3 transition.
If the animation needs to be repeated, choose CSS3 animation. Because it supports animation-iteration-count.
If a complicated animation is desired. Then CSS3 animation is preferred.
Don't bother yourself which is better. My give away is that, if you can solve your problem with just one or two lines of code then just do it rather than writing bunch of codes that will result to similar behavior.
Anyway, transition is like a subset of animation. It simply means transition can solve certain problems while animation on the other hand can solve all problems.
Animation enables you to have control of each stage starting from 0% all the way to 100% which is something transition cannot really do.
Animation require you writing bunch of codes while transition uses one or two lines of code to perform the same result depending on what you are working on.
Coming from the point of JavaScript, it is best to use transition. Anything that involve just two phase i.e. start and finish use transition.
Summary, if it is stressful don't use it since both can produce similar result