The Playground features web experiments, concepts, and layouts that push the boundaries of traditional design and showcase the latest in animation techniques.
by Manoela Ilic
An experimental jQuery plugin that will group thumbnails by a shared data-attribute into a pile. When clicking on the pile, the thumbnails that belong to that pile will be spread into a grid using CSS transitions.
by Manoela Ilic
With this jQuery plugin items can be spread in a card-like fashion and displayed in an unusual way. Several parameters allow many different spreading results, allowing a unique pattern.
by Manoela Ilic
Gamma Gallery is an experimental responsive image gallery that attempts to provide an adjustable responsive images approach taking its grid layout and the full slideshow view into account.
by Manoela Ilic
A highly experimental jQuery plugin that let’s you unfold elements to reveal more content just like on a piece of paper. Unfolding directions and number of steps can be specified.
by Manoela Ilic
This jQuery plugin can be used to swiftly navigate content items. The effect will make the items fly away like a deck of cards caught in a tiny storm.
by Manoela Ilic
A jQuery plugin that will create a booklet-like component that let’s you navigate through its items by flipping the pages.
by Manoela Ilic
A 3D thumbnail view concept for image slideshows: the current image gets opened up and a thumbnail view unfolds in 3d.
by Manoela Ilic
A jQuery plugin for creating a responsive image grid that will switch images using different animations and timings. This can work nicely as a background or decorative element of a website since we can randomize the appearance of new images and their transitions.
by Manoela Ilic
Vintage format meets modern web tech: an HTML5 audio player with realistic controls. Today we want to share an audio player with you that looks like an old school music cassette.
by Manoela Ilic
A responsive layout experiment where we arrange panels in a grid-like structure and transition the elements with 3D effects.
by Manoela Ilic
An experimental page layout that let’s you navigate pages by swiping or dragging as in a booklet, inspired by Flipboard.
by Tyler Craft
Today we’ll share an audio slideshow with you, i.e. a slideshow that will be synced with some audio. We are using the open source audio framework jPlayer.
by Manoela Ilic
How to create a direction-aware hover effect using CSS3 and jQuery. The idea is to slide in an overlay from the direction we are moving with the mouse.
by Manoela Ilic
A simple parallax content slider with different animations for each slider element and a background parallax effect.
by Manoela Ilic
Today, we want to share an experimental 3D gallery with you that uses CSS 3D transforms.
by Manoela Ilic
While CSS3 allows us to rotate letters, it is quite complicated to arrange each letter along a curved path. Arctext.js is a jQuery plugin that let’s you do exactly that. Based on Lettering.js, it calculates the right rotation of each letter and distributes the letters equally across the imaginary arc of the given radius.
by Team Codrops
2011 has been an exciting year for Codrops and we want to thank you for supporting us! We’ve learned a lot and it’s a privilege to us to be able to share our tutorials, experiments and thoughts with you. We hope that you have enjoyed our content and that it was inspiring and useful to you!
by Manoela Ilic
Today we want to share some experimental 3D image transitions with you that use CSS3 animations and jQuery. We’ll be using CSS3 3D Transforms for Webkit only.
