Customizable typewriter animation with CSS

[@primalscream40]

I’m totally new to html/ css. The stuff that you create with css just totally makes me keep pushing myself to learn more. Your an inspiration to me. Keep up the awesome work.

[@KevinPowell]

Thanks so much, and keep at it!

[@kaustubha7371]

I am down on the same path and its true it helps me keep pushing myself to learn more.

[@daleryanaldover6545]

keep it up guys, the same reason why I started learning css 7 years ago

[@primalscream40]

@@daleryanaldover6545 I’ve got a question. When I’m in html/css and have live server open. How can I make my browser scale to adjust without having to release the window to see the changes take effect. Make sense.

[@daleryanaldover6545]

@@primalscream40 if you mean the same as in Kevin's videos where he saves the file and browser automatically updates the saved changes. Then, try searching for the term "Hot reloading or Live reloading". You need to install some dependency depending on what framework you are working on. If you are using VS Code, you can install Live Server extension as it features live reloading out of the box.

[@captainray7465]

That steps function is really cool.

[@MrMeszaros]

Hey, to get a better bink cursor: change to steps(2, start) - with infinite, this will cycle through the two end-states use visibility: hidden instead of background: transparent - this will ensure no transparency blending occurs.

[@gykonik]

Wow, really improves the look. Thanks! :)

[@alysonsantos4686]

Thank you! It got better.

[@govindptl]

well, this kills the practical typing animation.

[@ujjawalmaru8048]

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[@MrSupdup]

I just wanted to say that after watching your Neon video I instantly subscribed, and now seeing this video I'm a permanent fan. You're showing me really cool CSS tricks that I can actually imagine using in my projects (this one I'll actually be using in my next project, so thank-you for that!), in a way that is extremely digestible. The way you work through your logic out loud is exactly how my brain thinks, you have an excellent educational style and I'm really appreciative of the content and the effort!

[@KevinPowell]

Thanks :)

[@charusharma7872]

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[@Reloko369]

Thanks, men. What you do is gold to me. I'm 36 years old and learning from 0 HTML, CSS, and JS. You make me realize the power of CSS in all this. I love the passion you put into it. Also, I have to say, your English is crystalline for me (Argentinian). I reconnect to learn this language with your videos.

[@emmanuelibuaka4118]

The first sign of a good tutor is that he's not afraid to refer you to persons or resources that he knows can help in your learning journey. Much ❤️ Kevin

[@Gloom-Grave]

The icing on the cake would be if you can make cursor movements from one position to the next fluid. That's what I really enjoy about MS Office :)

[@mariocamspam72]

exactly! thats called a smooth caret

[@dawatcherz]

for the speed of the cursor you could use calc( var(--typewriterspeed) / var(--typewriterCharacters)) , i think

[@RondellKB]

This is actually easy, a little cumbersome but very straightforward. Instead of using the step function, you can manually enter fixed points in the animation, and for each one, add to the left position, the width of one character. Example. Say your word has 10 characters in it, instead of doing step(10), you can add animation points: 10%, 20%, 30%, and so on up to 100%. Since the font is monospaced, each character will have the same width, find the width of one character, and in each animation point, add the width of the character to the current value of left. the result is a smooth transition from one character to the next.

[@fruitygranulizer540]

ive always found that super annoying, the cursor feels like its lagging behind when you type quickly ( i type 120 - 140 wpm )

[@deathstarhz3426]

Pro Tip: If you want to find out how many characters are in any given amount of text, highlight it in vs code, and look at the bottom bar, it should say "Ln ##, Col ## ( [number-of-characters] selected)

[@b3nj4m1nyt]

I already knew it but somehow I forgot it, so I actually opened notepad because I remembered that it has the same feature 😆

[@AbdicateDotNet]

Wow!! I've been "playing" in HTML/CSS since their inception (revealing my age) and I am so happy for CSS 3! What a difference! Thank you for teaching an old dog new tricks! I am going to WOW folks now! 👍🙌❤😊😷

[@soumyajitdey5720]

I love Kevin so much. A CSS guru! I used to hate CSS so much because I didn't understand it properly and now after knowing the basics what he is doing in each line absolutely makes sense. I will surely integrate this in one of my projects.

[@xrgiok]

I'm 33 year old and just start to learn html/css , and you inspire me! Thanks Kevin, you're really really good teacher!

[@unnervingibet117]

I’m learning python but watching this on CSS was such a blast, I think I’m just obsessed with code, it’s so fun to watch and learn and to make matters better, you’re very entertaining

[@charusharma7872]

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[@mimoduocss]

Dang clever trick and nice explanation! Clip-path would help remove the dependency on the background color ;)

[@xXYourShadowDaniXx]

Good episode, I made the clip path version here: codepen.io/Event_Horizon/pen/RwpQNyB?editors=1100

[@_AverageGuy]

I know it's late but can you explain how to use clip path cuz I have an image as background

[@alicianunez7801]

Thank you so much for this! I had trouble with my cursor going past my text but the display: grid and the width: max-content completely fixed it! You're the only person on the internet that was able to solve it!

[@zneverending3585]

You are the reason of why i still can't start learning JS after Html and Css

[@calin-andreipantis-simut6241]

Man, your videos are so inspiring, I am following you since the beginning where I didn't know what CSS even is. Now I am a developer and still find your videos to be so amazing. Keep going, you're doing a great job. I really appreciate your work! Congratulations!

[@mrsHoffmann]

Ugh, I needed this so badly two weeks ago, I just wanted to add this animation to my website and didn't find any good tutorials, I am happy now

[@AshishKumar-rq8gb]

Man. Thankyou so much. I have been working as a front end dev for 1 year and I was so afraid of using animations. Rather I should say, I never tried them. And you taught them through this so easily. Thanks a ton. I am going to follow all your tuts now and see how well I can do. :-)

[@charusharma7872]

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[@zachjensz]

OMG I didn't notice the headphones until you said

[@UniqueBots]

Dude this is PURE GENUISNESS! Loved the tricks.

[@johndoggett4657]

Dood Kevin you are a mind reader. I wanted to learn this effect for work and my portfolio.

[@advanceringnewholder]

this is probably the channel i need to finish my project

[@JaskSkull1991]

Bro! Thank you! I am building my website to showcase my blockchain and cybersecurity projects and was looking to add a typewriter effect and nothing worked, but yours solution did! Thank you!

[@prithwimanmazumdar4706]

You know you could actually get the caret without using a pseudo element, just set the left border of the covering div to 2px solid black. It would give the same effect without the need of a pseudo element, but great work man, totally loved this.

[@vin-kry]

Thanks a lot KP for this Tutorial!!! Actually, As a React developer I was using tract Typical for such typewriter effects. But wanted to create it with Css but unable to create. Now I can create easily... Thanks a lot!!!!

[@charusharma7872]

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[@mataca9]

Cool trick! Another way to do this, is if you are using sass, you can split a word in letters and then use a for to create the steps of animation putting the letters as an acumulation on the content property. Using flex and before in the main div and inside this div the cursor, as the cursor and the before are children, the cursor will move as the content is incremented. :D

[@dylancam812]

How do you use sass to split up the word. I’m trying to do it this way but I’m having some trouble

[@charusharma7872]

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[@0x007A]

This technique might add a subtle bit of bling to my portfolio website that I am developing.

[@Victor_Marius]

Yet again I learned something new from you. Didn't knew about steps() for animation

[@charusharma7872]

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[@mmaismma]

What would have been more clever would be adding a border-left to :before instead of going with :after.

[@softvibes1602]

dude, you are a pro in CSS, I'm subbing to you right now!

[@codehal]

Amazing tutorial sir!

[@Morrile1]

I love tips like this, straightforward and simple.

[@shaheerkhan_khawjikzai]

I try this on my portfolio ,great work Kevin

[@ibrahimkedir2280]

You are the best mate, cheers really; sometimes I just hit the like buttons of your videos with out even watching them.

[@dancehalllyrics1303]

Quick tip: Instead of having to add the font to all elements individually, you can simply add it to the universal selector.

[@KevinPowell]

fonts are inherited, so if you put it on the body or html, everything will get it, no need for a universal selector :) - I had two different fonts here, so I applied a different one to each element specifically.

[@dancehalllyrics1303]

@@KevinPowell Alrighty! I’ve just experienced that elements’ text that isn’t directly on the body (e.g. some text on a button, because the button itself is between the body and the text), doesn’t get the font family, if I just go ahead and add it on the body without I then also go ahead an add it to the element itself (if all of that makes sense)? That’s why I always add my font to the universal selector amongst my other reset/default stylings.

[@__matthi]

You're brilliant at explaining things. Thank you so much!

[@theshowwatcher3414]

In your every video I learn something new.

[@soyaiburrahman3806]

only one of your videos solves many of my problems.thanks boss

[@AA-oi9ru]

dear sir one piece of advice when you are trying to connect over codepen to see this amazing video it is saying refuse to connect to fix this you can use TARGET inside the link

[@plejra]

Wow I thought i will be simple. 20 minutes for so simple effect

[@arunsp767]

Thanks for the lovely tutorial. I have observed that while we are typing something, the blinking isn't there. The blinking kicks in once the typing is done. So maybe we should've had the blinking effect only before and after the typing animation. Also, the fade-blink is looking weird. Can make it abrupt using steps I guess.

[@SuatBarlak]

With the @Keyframes blink like this, you get a shorter transformation from transparent to black and back, which in my opinion looks a bit better @keyframes blink { 20% { background: black; } 25% { background: transparent; } 75% { background: transparent; } 80% { background: black; } }

[@Pierregouchet]

It would be interesting to pause the blinking while it's "typing", as a normal caret acts when you type something, and then blink only when it's idling. I guess you could do it by adding a few steps to the keyframes, but that would require a lot of maths to have it right ! :D I might try it anyway.

[@AJman14]

And there shouldn't be a fading animation. Just a blink. On/Off.

[@Pierregouchet]

@@AJman14 yup !

[@i_am_pasindu]

For a moment I checked the video playback speed. it felt like I was watching at 1.25 or 1.5 🙄 BTW nice tutorial

[@CloudBroadcasts]

Thanks for the content - I’ve learned a lot from you. Keep ‘em coming!

[@brunomocellin]

I'm just entering the world of programing but i already understand the logic behind it. Your video is so cool as you add steps to it. I'm willing to make an Alert (StreamElements) with that effect, just need to think how the variables of text, text size and names will fit.

[@raigallino]

I hated css and you make me love it. Thank you kevin!

[@rezarahman1782]

CSS animation is really really strong.🥰

[@cwang9945]

So amazing. Thank you sir. I really love this typing effect.

[@Baljeettest]

Super idea, hats off Kevin..... ✌️

[@lyckagennie6039]

Yay! New Learning Thanks Mr. From a Grade 12 student😊

[@gamersdestiny403]

😮 I thought it was a old video. This video is just right on time 😯😯😯😯

[@teal4069]

Amazing tutorial... not only the content but also your explanations are so on point

[@charusharma7872]

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[@yauhenisafronau9302]

Great work. Learning from the greatest masters.

[@bobrobertsNotUrBob]

Very smart, if I knew about "steps" then I guess I could have figured it out...the more you know

[@commentmyideas4523]

Hair cut done 😂😂 styling looks good css

[@yutaishere]

This is very helpful! Thanks so much Kevin!

[@ChrisPirillo147]

I was thinking about this a few days ago, and it finally popped up :)

[@ankurc]

Very fun might have to try in my portfolio page

[@gopalloharnew5948]

The video is awesome

[@emmanuelrf]

No sooner had I finished the video than I started fixing the hardcoded characters length via JavaScript. Here's my solution: document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { // add typewriter class to any elements you want to animate. const elements = document.querySelectorAll('.typewriter'); elements.forEach(element => { const { length } = element.textContent; element.style.setProperty('--typewriterCharacters', length); }); });

[@raykutan]

You should put the blink animation to _infinite alternate_ so that it doesn't jump from transparent to black. Also I don't understand why you put the timing function to _step_ since the blinking has nothing to do with the text length, _linear_ would make more sense and _ease-in-out_ looks also nice

[@charusharma7872]

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[@waseem_498]

Are we not going to talk about the Chicago accent at 1:07 “javascript” lol great videos I learn so much

[@KevinPowell]

Haha, first time I get someone saying I have a Chicago accent, but I definitely hear it there, lol. I'm in Montreal, Canada, so not a common accent to sneak in, lol

[@waseem_498]

@@KevinPowell I just got back from Chicago so I heard it immediately 😂

[@danielcir8675]

Thank you, Dr. CSS

[@bahar_hussain]

very amazing idea i am so excited from this.

[@AdityaDhungana]

You're great Kevin.

[@skalexshanghai]

Awesome!!! Thanks for the class!!

[@MrStefanica]

Very nice ! Thank you Kevin !

[@whoman0385]

Thanks so much i can finally make my own website!

[@BrunoMussoi]

I guess it can also work by shrinking the h1 to 0, and animate it back to its normal size. This way you would not need to cover the letters with the background color.

[@Victor_Marius]

And use the right border for the caret. But if you have anything to the right of the element it would be moved around, but maybe this side effect is the target result.

[@KevinPowell]

The issue here is you can't animate to `max-content` (same with auto). If you had a fixed final size it would work, but I wanted to make it easy to update :) - You could use JS to figure that out too, if you really wanted to use that approach, but it seems like more work than using an extra pseudo-element :)

[@Victor_Marius]

@@KevinPowell what if you set width to 24ch or same number as the custom property used for the animation steps?

[@CarlosHernandez-tg3vj]

Alright alright, I'll subscribe that's pretty cool

[@codecruz]

Now add the codename kids next door typing sound and we have a banger

[@dawatcherz]

for the speed of the cursor you could use calc( var(--typewriterspeed) / var(--typewriterCharacters))

[@charusharma7872]

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[@habibthekhan]

wow this was cool I didn't know about this steps animation thank you soo much

[@jpzro3158]

This is pretty cool!

[@dave6012]

Steps! i had no idea. Thank you.

[@binitdemta3793]

Really great. Thanks for the wonderful videos.

[@SothearithKONGMrMuyKhmer]

Thanks Kevin; that’s awesome! 👍😍

[@sanmeetsingh4]

Another super cool video 😎

[@Tiger1AuasfE]

Nice, thnx for uploading.

[@himalmevada7989]

I Just dive in animation and it's really Fun. the video is awesome nicely explained

[@boghost2997]

Thanks for the video, amazing as always but wouldn't it be easier to just put a black border-left on the before rather then an after to make the black ligne waiting after each character. And sorry if my English is bad, I'm French

[@sanjibchanda21]

What a tricky animation 😅 awesome 👌

[@jameshansen801]

This is so cool, thanks for doing a video on this! I'm currently working on a project where I'd like to incorporate a dynamic version of this that could be applied to whole paragraphs instead of single lines. So far, my biggest issue is that every line in the paragraph animates at the same time with the caret animation being the same height as the paragraph. Any help would be greatly appreciated Kevin. Thanks again!

[@MrSupdup]

Did you ever have any success with this? Trying to do this on a current project and I'm fearful its not possible using only CSS. It's simple enough to make the height of the pseudo's the height of one line (making the caret and the background block out just one line), but it doesn't seem possible to animate multiple lines staggered one after the other if they are all in the same element.

[@jameshansen801]

@@MrSupdup Currently, the only answer I have now is to chop up the paragraph and create a timed loop that animates each individual line. Obviously, this isn't a dynamic solution. However, it's still on my todo list!

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[@CoreDreamStudios]

Pretty sweet ! Can I use this in personal projects non-profit?

[@CK-qh5te]

Perfect, tutorial. Thank you!

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[@X6millionways2di]

Hi Kevin 1st of all respect for your whole work. Now my question. Is it possible to put a typewriter retro sound with the typewriter animation together. Beginning at a mouse pointer action.

[@devc_]

Great explanation, love your videos

[@bunnydevx]

awesome vid keep it up man i also use typing animation on my website and it looks nice

[@susityy2030]

Thank you!

[@TungNguyen-dr3ue]

Great content. You're my inspiration for learning more and more. Thank you very much!!! Hope you have a beautiful day. P/s: I think it will look really amazed if there is an intro for your video

[@anjor3206]

CSS guru 🙌

[@GeorgeNorberg]

Love your videos!

[@cintron3d]

lol I feel naked without my headphones on and will wear them whenever I'm at my desk, music or not.

[@cameronhumphries2377]

im the opposite, if no music is playing i feel weird with headphones in

[@codedynamics1]

Lol

[@BenRogersWPG]

Very cool

[@alirajabli]

Excellent , Thank you man!

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[@toluwaniagbojo3441]

Thank you very much for this but I have a question, what if I have 2 sentences, and I want the second one to come after the first, what should I do.

[@KevinPowell]

I think you'd need to manually break it over two lines, with. The same animation on both, but delay the second one until the first one is done. Be careful though, people won't stick around to see what's typing out if it's too long

[@marketinginhouse]

What good videos, greetings from Peru

[@sanjaysushiv13]

Awesome

[@Dexter101x]

Hilariously ingenious