Build a portfolio with CSS3 transitions

  • Knowledge needed: Basic CSS and jQuery. Experience with jQuery animate() function is a bonus
  • Requires: jQuery, Modernizr, a browser and your preferred editor/IDE
  • Project Time: 1.5 – 3 hours
  • Support file

What are CSS transitions? The W3C draft states: “normally when the value of a CSS property changes, the rendered result is instantly updated, with the affected elements immediately changing from the old property value to the new property value. This section describes a way to specify transitions using new CSS properties. These properties are used to animate smoothly from the old state to the new state over time.”

As simple as this may sound, what it means in the real world is that using CSS transitions is a great way to add interactivity to a modern website. While they’re not supported in all browsers, support is improving, and by using old friends such as Modernizr and Feature Detection, we can use jQuery fallbacks so that older, less supportive browsers need not miss out.

Here we’re going to build a modern, interactive portfolio page using CSS3 transitions to replace jQuery animation and HTML5 markup. We’ll be looking at vendor prefix issues and adding fallbacks for less supportive browsers.

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