Animation

A collection of smooth animations to use within your page.

Usage

Add one of the .uk-animation-* classes to any element. The animation is shown when the class is added, so usually immediately on page load. To show the animation at another point, for example when the element enters the viewport, you would add the class using JavaScript — with the Scrollspy component for instance. This is what happens in many of UIkit’s components that make use of animations. All animations themselves are implemented with CSS, so they do not require JavaScript to play.

Class	Description
`.uk-animation-fade`	The element fades in.
`.uk-animation-scale-up` `.uk-animation-scale-down`	The element fades in and scales up or down.
`.uk-animation-slide-top` `.uk-animation-slide-bottom` `.uk-animation-slide-left` `.uk-animation-slide-right`	The element fades and slides in from the top, bottom, left or right by its own height or width.
`.uk-animation-slide-top-small` `.uk-animation-slide-bottom-small` `.uk-animation-slide-left-small` `.uk-animation-slide-right-small`	The element fades and slides in from the top, bottom, left or right with a smaller distance which is specified by a fixed pixel value.
`.uk-animation-slide-top-medium` `.uk-animation-slide-bottom-medium` `.uk-animation-slide-left-medium` `.uk-animation-slide-right-medium`	The element fades and slides in from the top, bottom, left or right with a medium distance which is specified by a fixed pixel value.
`.uk-animation-kenburns`	The element scales very slowly up without fading in.
`.uk-animation-shake`	The element shakes.
`.uk-animation-stroke`	The SVG element strokes are drawn.

To toggle an animation on hover or focus, add the .uk-animation-toggle class to a parent element. Also add tabindex="0" to make the animation focusable through keyboard navigation and on touch devices.

<div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
  <div class="uk-animation-fade"></div>
</div>

Fade

Scale Up

Scale Down

Shake

Left

Top

Bottom

Right

Left Small

Top Small

Bottom Small

Right Small

Left Medium

Top Medium

Bottom Medium

Right Medium

<div class="uk-grid-match uk-child-width-1-2" uk-grid>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-fade uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Fade</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-scale-up uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Scale Up</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-scale-down uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Scale Down</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-shake uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Shake</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-slide-left uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Left</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-slide-top uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-slide-bottom uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div class="uk-animation-slide-right uk-background-muted uk-padding-small">
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Right</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-left-small uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Left Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-top-small uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-bottom-small uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-right-small uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Right Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-left-medium uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Left Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-top-medium uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-bottom-medium uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-right-medium uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Right Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Reverse modifier

By default, all animations are incoming. To reverse any animation, add the .uk-animation-reverse class.

<div class="uk-animation-fade uk-animation-reverse"></div>

Fade

Scale Up

Scale Down

Shake

Left

Top

Bottom

Right

Left Small

Top Small

Bottom Small

Right Small

Left Medium

Top Medium

Bottom Medium

Right Medium

<div class="uk-grid-match uk-child-width-1-2" uk-grid>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-fade uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Fade</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-scale-up uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Scale Up</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-scale-down uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Scale Down</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-shake uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Shake</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-left uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Left</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-top uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-bottom uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-right uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Right</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-left-small uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Left Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-top-small uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-bottom-small uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-right-small uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Right Small</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-left-medium uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Left Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-top-medium uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-bottom-medium uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-slide-right-medium uk-animation-reverse uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Right Medium</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Fast modifier

To play animations at a faster speed, add the .uk-animation-fast class to the element.

<div class="uk-animation-fade uk-animation-fast"></div>

Fade

<div class="uk-width-1-2">
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-fade uk-animation-fast uk-background-muted uk-padding-small"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Fade</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Origin modifiers

By default, scaling animations originate from the center. To modify this behavior, add one of the .uk-transform-origin-* classes from the Utility component.

<div class="uk-animation-scale-up uk-transform-origin-bottom-right"></div>

Bottom Right

Top Center

Bottom Center

<div class="uk-child-width-1-3@s" uk-grid>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-scale-up uk-background-muted uk-padding-small uk-transform-origin-bottom-right"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom Right</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-scale-up uk-background-muted uk-padding-small uk-transform-origin-top-center"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Top Center</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <div
      class="uk-animation-scale-up uk-background-muted uk-padding-small uk-transform-origin-bottom-center"
    >
      <p class="uk-text-small uk-text-center">Bottom Center</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Ken Burns

To add a simple Ken Burns effect, add the .uk-animation-kenburns class to any image. You can also apply the .uk-animation-reverse or one of the .uk-transform-origin-* classes from the Utility component to modify the effect.

<img class="uk-animation-kenburns" src="" width="" height="" alt="" />

By default, the animation starts on page load. In this example we used the Scrollspy component, to toggle the effect when the image enters the view.

<div class="uk-child-width-1-2@s uk-grid-small" uk-grid>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-overflow-hidden">
      <img
        src="/images/dark.jpg"
        width="1800"
        height="1200"
        alt="Example image"
        uk-scrollspy="cls: uk-animation-kenburns; repeat: true"
      />
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="uk-overflow-hidden">
      <img
        src="/images/dark.jpg"
        width="1800"
        height="1200"
        alt="Example image"
        class="uk-animation-reverse uk-transform-origin-top-right"
        uk-scrollspy="cls: uk-animation-kenburns; repeat: true"
      />
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

SVG Strokes

The Animation component can be used to animate SVG strokes. The effect looks like the SVG strokes are drawn before your eyes. The SVG image has to be injected into the markup as an inline SVG. This can be done manually or using the SVG component.

The following example shows how to add the inline SVG manually. Since you have to know the exact length of the stroke, UIkit requires you to set the length in the custom property --uk-animation-stroke. In this example the stroke length is 46.

<svg
  class="uk-animation-stroke"
  style="--uk-animation-stroke: 46;"
  viewBox="0 0 20 20"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>
  <path fill="none" stroke="#000" stroke-width="1" d="" />
</svg>

A much easier way is to use the SVG component by adding uk-svg="stroke-animation: true" to the image element. It will calculate the stroke length and add the --uk-animation-stroke custom property automatically.

<img src="" width="" height="" alt="" uk-svg="stroke-animation: true" />

<div class="uk-child-width-1-2@m uk-text-center" uk-grid>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <img
      class="uk-animation-stroke"
      src="/images/strokes.svg"
      width="250"
      height="250"
      alt=""
      uk-svg="stroke-animation: true"
    />
  </div>
  <div class="uk-animation-toggle" tabindex="0">
    <img
      class="uk-animation-stroke uk-animation-reverse"
      src="/images/strokes.svg"
      width="250"
      height="250"
      alt=""
      uk-svg="stroke-animation: true"
    />
  </div>
</div>

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Usage
Reverse modifier
Fast modifier
Origin modifiers
Ken Burns
SVG Strokes

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