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This post is part 2 of an animation series I am doing; you can read part 1 here. In this post, we’ll look at the different parts of the box model (margin, padding, height, and width) and see how they can be animated.
The W3C has a great starting reference for the CSS Box Model. It can be wordy at times, but has everything you need to know. I had never heard of margin collapsing until I read that. Luckily there is a great post on CSS-Tricks written by Geoff Graham explaining what it is. To see it all in action, take a look at this Codepen demo{.broken_link}– I reference this multiple times in this post. Now, on to the box model.
Margin
- Accepts 1 to 4 numerical values (negative numbers are allowed)
- If you use 4 values, the first value is the top margin and the rest follow in a clockwise fashion
- Initial value: 0
Margins can be described as the space around an element. In the Codepen demo (#1), it shows 2 boxes. The first box has a margin-right that is increasing, making it seem as though it’s pushing the second box away.
@keyframes margin {
to { margin-right: 7rem; }
}
.margin {
display: inline-block;
height: 5rem;
width: 5rem;
background-color: lightblue;
vertical-align: top;
}
.margin:first-of-type {
margin-right: 0;
animation: margin 4s ease 0s infinite;
}
Padding
- Accepts 1 to 4 non-negative values
- If you use 4 values, the first value is the top margin and the rest follow in a clockwise fashion
- Initial value: 0
Padding is the space between the content and the border of an element. In the demo (#2), it shows a box in which its padding is increasing.
@keyframes padding {
to { padding: 2rem; }
}
.padding {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0;
background-color: lightgreen;
animation: padding 2.5s ease 0s infinite;
}
Height
- Accepts a non-negative number, this number is overridden however by (min/max)-height
- Initial value: auto
“Height” is the height of an element without its padding, border, or margin. In the demo (#3) you can see the boxes’ height shrink, and each box begins it’s animation at a different time.
@keyframes height {
to { height: .01rem; }
}
.height {
display: inline-block;
height: 4rem;
width: 3rem;
background-color: violet;
animation: height 1.25s ease 0s infinite;
vertical-align: top;
}
.height:nth-of-type(n) {
animation: height 1.25s ease .2s infinite alternate;
}
.height:nth-of-type(2n) {
animation: height 1.25s ease .4s infinite alternate;
}
.height:nth-of-type(3n) {
animation: height 1.25s ease .6s infinite alternate;
}
Width
- Accepts a non-negative number, this number is overridden however by (min/max)-width
- Initial value: auto
“Width” is the width of an element without its padding, border, or margin. In the demo (#4), it is similar to #3, however, it’s the width being affected as opposed to the height.
@keyframes width {
to { width: .01rem; }
}
.width {
margin-bottom: .2rem;
height: 3rem;
width: 6.5rem;
background-color: bisque;
}
.width:nth-of-type(n) {
animation: width 1.25s ease .2s infinite alternate;
}
.width:nth-of-type(2n) {
animation: width 1.25s ease .4s infinite alternate;
}
.width:nth-of-type(3n) {
animation: width 1.25s ease .6s infinite alternate;
}
Conclusion
And so with this we can add another collection of animations to our toolbelt! If you’re wondering why I left border out of this box-model post, it’s because I have already written a post dedicated to just the border animation. Here are some of the resources I looked at for this post. Hopefully I’ll come back with another animatable post soon! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/margin https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/margin{.broken_link} https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/padding https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/padding{.broken_link} https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/height https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/height{.broken_link} https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/width https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/width{.broken_link}