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Animations in Angular

CSS Animations in Angular

Explore how to implement CSS animations within Angular applications using two main methods: Renderer2 and class binding. Learn to dynamically add and remove animation classes to elements based on application logic and user interaction. Understand which approach suits different use cases to create smooth, controlled animations.

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CSS animations can be used in Angular apps in several ways. These animations get executed as soon as the class containing the animation is added to our element. The method of adding the class doesn’t matter within the context of this course.

Traditionally, we would give the target element an ID, access it by using getElementById, and add the class via classList.add, which looks something like this:

Javascript (babel-node)
var element = document.getElementById("targetElement");
function startSpinning() {
  element.classList.add("spin");
}

Angular provides a couple of ways to add a class dynamically to an element. We can either ...