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CSS Animating SVG with CSS Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations Finishing the Animation Sequence

Keith Corona
Keith Corona
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Posted by Keith Corona
Keith Corona
9,553 Points

Finishing the animation sequence - what if we wanted the star points to delay in a specific order?

In the "Animating SVG with CSS" series, in the video "Finishing the animation sequence", we set delays to the 5-points of a star using nth-of-type. I wanted to know if there is an easy way to use nth-of-type or another command to be able to set the delays in a specific order, perhaps to start at the top point and work all the way around to clockwise.

.star circle {
  animation: pulse .7s 1.5s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(2) {
  animation-delay: 1.6s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(3) {
  animation-delay: 1.7s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(4) {
  animation-delay: 1.8s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(5) {
  animation-delay: 1.9s;
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,771 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,771 Points

You already have the stars pulsing in sequence, you just want to change the order. Try moving the last circle to the 2nd position in the HTML, like this:

      <circle fill="#DFB828" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="4" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" cx="180" cy="107.8" r="4.4"/>
      <circle fill="#DFB828" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="4" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" cx="251.7" cy="160.4" r="4.4"/>
      <circle fill="#DFB828" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="4" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" cx="223.7" cy="244.2" r="4.4"/>
      <circle fill="#DFB828" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="4" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" cx="135.5" cy="244.2" r="4.4"/>
      <circle fill="#DFB828" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="4" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" cx="108.3" cy="160.4" r="4.4"/>

Now the pulses will occur clockwise, starting at the top. You could also get the same effect by changing the order of the delays in the CSS, but there you would need to make changes on 4 lines instead of just moving one line in the HTML:

.star circle:nth-of-type(5) {
  animation-delay: 1.6s;
}
.star circle:nth-of-type(2) {
  animation-delay: 1.7s;
}
.star circle:nth-of-type(3) {
  animation-delay: 1.8s;
}
.star circle:nth-of-type(4) {
  animation-delay: 1.9s;
}

Just don't change both files!

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I ended up playing around with settings before noticing Steven's answer for this question. These delays work quite nice:

.star circle {
  animation: pulse .7s 1.5s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(5) {
  animation-delay: 1.6s;
}


.star circle:nth-of-type(2) {
  animation-delay: 1.95s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(3) {
  animation-delay: 2.25s;
}

.star circle:nth-of-type(4) {
  animation-delay: 2.55s;
}

The first circle is going to begin to pulse at 1.5s. After that, it is just trial and error to figure out which nth-of-type location number fires next. Otherwise, the delay timings are just from preference on what looks best (a .3s delay seems to be most natural for the animation). Play around with the delay timings and find what you think looks best^^