Introduction to CSS Transitions
Explore the fundamentals of CSS transitions and their role in creating smooth, intermediate steps for CSS property changes in Angular animations. Understand how triggers like hover or class changes enable transitions, and see practical examples with opacity and movement effects that improve user experience and interface fluidity.
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CSS transitions
CSS transitions are a mechanism that add intermediate steps when modifying CSS properties. By default, any changes made to a CSS property will take effect immediately. CSS transitions apply these changes over a configurable period with the intermediate steps calculated automatically by the browser.
For those who are already familiar with CSS animations, CSS transitions may seem like a simplified version of that. There are a few differences between the two. For example, CSS animations only has two states: the initial and the final. Meanwhile, CSS transitions have an action-based trigger mechanism, meaning that CSS transitions have to have something that triggers the transition to run, such as an addition of a ...