Creating an award-winning page transition in Webflow using GSAP

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My first KZbin video! It's been on my mind for quite a while now, and finally taking the leap. In this video I'm recreating a pixelated page transition that I originally made for www.vrtlwrld.io, which was designed by the team at Holographik. The website won an Awwwards Site of the Day and Developer Award, and was even nominated for Site of the Month - all leading to a lot of questions on how I created several things.
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Holographik: www.holographik.co/
GSAP Install helper: greensock.com/docs/v3/Install...
Codesandbox: codesandbox.io/
How I record my screen: www.screen.studio/
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[@chrishely8586]

Great work! Can't wait till the next one🎉

[@garyvoigt321]

Love it! Looking forward to more tutorials.

[@baltazarfajto]

Greatly explaned, thanks!

[@contra_hq]

This is amazing! 🔥

[@brandingowyninja2387]

Big fan of your work. Great video man.

[@adarshgoldar]

Wow 🎉 This is amazing. Waiting for more tutorials.

[@vladimirpetroski7089]

I finally saw the whole thing! Amazing stuff Ilja, I'll be sure to use this in creative ways. Thanks a lot, you're the best!

[@t_o_ny]

And a cloneable! So cool.

[@lovefrommana]

Hell yeah, super excited for your videos! I was subbed even before the video came out in case you ended up making any. :)

[@dannleal]

I already loved your work from searching great Webflow websites, really happy to see you getting even more out there! Thank you for your content.

[@Kevinpips1]

Always knew you where a great teacher 🔥🚀

[@4bike407]

Good work! Smart and simple explanaition. Thanks!

[@leonardotomella]

Can’t wait for more! 🔥📎

[@bamoj]

Thanks for sharing this Ilja.

[@armansalehi]

Damn... very slick 👏👏. Already waiting on the next video 👀

[@frankiejamieson3690]

This is great stuff mate, keep it up!

[@uncode_nl]

Go for it Ilja! 🚀

[@MohamedHassan-xf5wb]

Really Awesome!

[@juliegeant1515]

Thank you Ilja !!!🙏👌

[@BorhanMediaWebdesign]

This Video and the simplicity behind the Gsap Animation + the Great Explaining of yours motivates me even more to learn GSAP for Webflow. Excellent Work Ilja!

[@ferdiboxman4641]

Such a great video my friend

[@nesliedoguiles]

Very easy to understand. Thank you very much!

[@ludoviclosco]

Awesome Ilja 🙌

[@TheSemml91]

Great first video!

[@eli.alcaraz]

Hell yeah! Would love to learn from one of the best. Let's go!

[@victoradeniji4554]

Awesome Video!, Well done!

[@maxklyn4821]

Sick man!

[@osendz]

Thanks buddy. Really helpful.

[@Grifanos]

Great video 👍 Keep going, I am considering adding something interesting to my portfolio website, so I think I found "that" something, thanks 😁

[@pjrijpkema9961]

Lekker bezig Ilja! 😎

[@adil_khan15]

Great work! Looking for more tutorials

[@JonnySchaab]

Sooo good

[@uxdeya7660]

so cool

[@TheGhostie]

Thank you SO MUCH for explaining the code!! I wish T.RICKS explained it more often like you did, I feel like I’d have a much better grasp on coding using gsap already 😅😅

[@elysiumcore]

Let's get it - here is to 100k 👀

[@michaellieu]

Amazing, I'm looking forward to more tutorials! Could I request a guide on creating the header text animation, please?! 🙏🏼

[@BigheadSinan]

Meteen geabonneerd, goede video!

[@demas.digital]

💪

[@callthedesignguy]

Hey, loved the video, what do you use for your screen recordings?

[@dimitrisqq]

Ilja 😍 🥰

[@amandeepsingh4343]

It isn't working on CMS pages, could you tell how to solve this? BTW Thanks for this awesome tutorial 👍

[@danjul33]

Is there an easy way to avoid having the animations show up when you first open the site? 🤔 Because I have a different loading animation.

[@3xtraspicy]

what's the best way to load GSAP into webflow? preferably the library would be global and then individual config scripts for each section or page?

[@Sergy_Kondrashin]

Thank you! Noob question ) After you did set function for the first animation why do you put code for second above and not under? Or it doesn’t matter? 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@iljavaneck]

The outro animation of the blocks will be the first thing that runs on page load. But if this bit is the only custom code you have on your site, I doubt it makes much of a difference actually!

[@muktadirrudro7552]

​@@iljavaneck may be a very dumb question. I am really new to this. How can I get the cdn link for the sandbox code.

[@Inttallity]

@@muktadirrudro7552 You might already have seen but if Not, He has a video on this that he uploaded yesterday!

[@muktadirrudro7552]

@@Inttallity yeah, saw that video today. Thanks a lot mate for mentioning

[@joshmann7855]

This is great! One thing - it looks like on the vrtlwrld site you solved the issue of hitting 'Back' in browser. But with this example, the interactions doesn't reset

[@iljavaneck]

You're right! Forgot about that part, I added it in the cloneable now!

[@joshmann7855]

Thank you

[@INXIETE]

Hey ilja, how you did the zoom transition for this video?

[@filetmignon9978]

What framework do you use for your webflow builds?

[@iljavaneck]

I use the fluid scaling technique from wizardry, and with class names kind of have my own thing.

[@nakinboots]

Hi Ilja, I implemented this on my site, and it's awesome, but it doesn't allow me to access the edit feature in Webflow because the edit function doesn't seem to initiate GSAP. Any thoughts there?

[@vincentorougoura3901]

Hello everyone! Does anyone have a problem with the $ not defined? I don’t know how to fix it.

[@iljavaneck]

The '$' refers to jQuery. You might get errors in codesandbox that it's not defined because it can't access jQuery inside of the codesandbox file. It will work on the published site though, because Webflow includes jquery.

[@user-xz3sh3iy4r]

What is the benefit of the sandbox? Wouldn't it be safer to write JS code directly to Webflow custom code areas? I would be worried the js code is not safe when it's written somewhere else.

[@skylov01]

it seems not working page when click window back button??

[@iljavaneck]

Yes, I forgot to add a little snippet that takes care of that. If you check the cloneable now, I added it at the bottom of the document.ready function!

[@mars1860]

What can i do to become this good at websites? I litteraly hate coding and i only have knowledge in CSS. How much time would it take me?

[@iljavaneck]

Practice makes better! Try and do lots of different things. I’ve been building sites for a little over 2 years now

[@mars1860]

@@iljavaneck thanks, now I’m trying Framer since it seems better suited for me

[@academyux]

For some reason the cloneable is not working for me? I think the link to your script is broken.

[@iljavaneck]

Not sure why it's not working on your end, does it work now?

[@archrao2103]

I'm new to webflow. Where can one learn the basics of gsap

[@iljavaneck]

Timothy Ricks has GSAP lessons on his Patreon, but also quite some videos on his channel - that’s how I started learning it as well

[@thewebstylist]

Curious if you sell any of your awesome designs?

[@iljavaneck]

Some of the things I show in videos are based off client work I did, but I might have some template plans for 2024!

[@parasshah195]

To not have to set a condition about the link being external or being an anchor link, the event listener can directly be applied to a filtered link selector: 'a:not([target="_blank"], [href*='#'])' (selects `a` tags which are not opening in a new tab, and do not have a '#' character in its href value) Avoids double processing of adding a listener to external or hash links and then checking if it's an external link or not.

[@johanvanwambeke723]

It's nice, but if you have slow pages, a page transition should help mask it, this does not mask it at all. just adds extra waiting time. Still, nice creative page transition, but functionaly not there.