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JavaScript

Guillermo Sequeira
Guillermo Sequeira
9,297 Points
Posted by Guillermo Sequeira
Guillermo Sequeira
9,297 Points

How is it possible to make 'words switch' effect?

I was looking at this website (http://actionsbeyondwords.org/) and was wondering how is it possible to make the effect of words switching. I'm not sure if this is possible with either CSS o JQuery. Thank you for any answer.

3 Answers

Ed Mendoza
Ed Mendoza
9,652 Points

Based on the markup at the link you provided, I believe they are using this jQuery plugin to accomplish the text rotation/flip animations. Text Rotator Plugin

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,672 Points
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,672 Points

They are using a jQuery plugin called Simple Text Rotator. If you look at the code in the main JavaScript file it creates an array from a comma-separated string (the text inside an element with the class, 'rotate'). As the text is looped the animation (transition) is done by the script adding custom CSS (there are seven animation setting options).

nicholastillman
nicholastillman
8,319 Points
nicholastillman
nicholastillman
8,319 Points

Looks like a plugin.. also using CSS3 animations on the parent div. example link