Hover trigger

Overview

A hover trigger executes the animation when the element is hovered. The animation then starts to play in the normal direction from start to end. When the element is hovered-out, the animation switch to backward direction and will play from the current state back to the start.

Syntax

To activate the hover trigger, use the hover. A CSS property is animated when the element receives the hover state.

Examples

These examples show the usage of the hover trigger in the various timeline types together with the combination with the different triggers.

Discrete timeline

Discrete timeline is the basic timeline that animate the properties when the hover trigger is executed on the element.

Sequenced timeline

Sequenced timeline animates the CSS properties in the sequence of steps using the hover trigger.

Offset-based timeline

Offset-based timeline combine the CSS-offsets with the sequence of steps to animate the properties, triggered by a hover action.

Combination

The hover trigger can be combined with any other available triggers.

Parameters

Trigger can be customized with the parameters that are defined within its parentheses ().

Target

The target parameter specifies the external element on the page where the current trigger is applied. This means you can define an animation that starts when a trigger on a different element is activated. A real-world example: clicking the hamburger menu button makes an off-screen sidebar appear.

Options

The id, class and attribute CSS selectors can be used.

Examples

In these examples, we’ll use a <p id="text"> as the target element where the hover trigger is applied. This will then affect elements that reference #text as their target parameter.

For better clarity, you can interpret it as: When the hover trigger is activated on the #text target element, the scale(2) CSS property is animated.

id selector

This examples shows how to use a target parameter with an id CSS selector defined with the #{id}.

class selector

This examples shows how to use a target parameter with a class CSS selector defined by the .{class-name}.

attribute selector

This examples shows how to use a target parameter with a attribute CSS selector defined by the [{attribute}]