Day # 62: Rain animation



Animations are great tools to learn CSS fundamentals. They allow you to add a necessary amount of fun to the challenging process of learning how to code.

Animating rains is always a delightful task to practice animations in CSS. For today’s website, I decided to create an animation that mimics a rain of colored drops. The key here is generating those elements through Javascript and then animating them through CSS in a random way.

First, we style the elements generated in Javascript:

i {

  position: absolute;

  height: 200px;

  background: linear-gradient(transparent, #fff);

  border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;

  border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;

  animation: animate 5s linear infinite;

}


Secondly, we style those elements by separating one from another:


i:nth-child(3n + 1) {

  background: linear-gradient(transparent, darkviolet);

}


And lastly, we configure the animation:

@keyframes animate {

  0% {

    transform: translateY(-200px);

  }

  100% {

    transform: translateY(calc(100vh + 200px));

  }

}

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