CSS makes the world go round 🌎

On Thursday, I came across this great tweet by Antonia

And I was inspired by it, so I wanted to have a look at this! (Yes, I’m addicted to smileys!)

So today, we’ll make the world go round with CSS.

It’s not as smooth as Antonia’s example because the world only has three emojis ☹️

HTML Structure permalink

Our HTML is the simplest ever. Only one div!

<div class="world"></div>

CSS spinning world emoji permalink

As for CSS, this is where the magic happens!

Let’s start by making the body a display flex and center everything with flex.

body {
  background: #333;
  display: flex;
  height: 100vh;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
}

Next up to our div!

.world {
  font-size: 250px;
  width: 250px;
  height: 328px;
}
.world::before {
  position: absolute;
  content: '🌎';
  z-index: 1;
  animation: world-tween 1s infinite;
}
.world::after {
  position: absolute;
  content: '🌎';
  animation: world 1s infinite;
}

After class, we make the font size big and set our starting emoji 🌎 on our pseudo.

Then we set our animation to be world, for 1 second and loop forever!

All we need to do now is make the world animation:

@keyframes world {
  33% {
    content: '🌍';
  }
  66% {
    content: '🌏';
  }
}

Spencer mentioned we could have another layer on top, which can hold a tween animation, including opacity, to make it slightly smoother. We added a ::before pseudo-element to make this happen.

And for our world-tween animation:

@keyframes world-tween {
  16.5% {
    content: '🌍';
    opacity: 0.5;
  }
  33% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
  50% {
    content: '🌏';
    opacity: 0.5;
  }
  66% {
    opacity: 0;
  }
  83% {
    content: '🌎';
    opacity: 0.5;
  }
}

There are only two world emojis left, so we split our animation in two and set our content!

That’s it. CSS can make the world go round!

View this demo on Codepen.

See the Pen CSS Makes the world go round 🌍 by Chris Bongers (@rebelchris) on CodePen.

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