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Introduction to CSS Animations

Explore the fundamentals of CSS animations, including how to define keyframes and configure properties such as duration and timing. Understand the benefits of CSS animations over transitions, their performance advantages, and their framework-agnostic nature. This lesson equips you to implement and customize CSS animations effectively within Angular projects.

CSS animations, also known as keyframe animations, are animation methods to animate an element from one style configuration to another. CSS animations, unlike CSS transitions, can have intermediate steps using a set of keyframes to indicate the styles to be applied at each step.

CSS animations consist of two parts:

  • A configuration for the animation itself (i.e. duration, iteration, delay, direction, fill mode, and timing function).
  • A set of keyframes indicating the styles to be applied
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