Playground

In this category you will find experiments, plugins and articles related to web development and programming. Here we present some new ideas and inspiration for solving problems and tackling challenges around web development.

3D Grid Effect

By Mary Lou on March 27, 2014

A proof-of-concept effect recreation of the animation seen in a prototype app by Marcus Eckert. The idea is to flip a grid item in 3D, expand it to fullscreen and re ...

Inspiration for Item Transitions

By Mary Lou on March 18, 2014

Some inspiration and ideas for item transitions considering different scenarios and use cases, including a small component, a full-width image header and a product i ...

Simple Stack Effects

By Mary Lou on March 5, 2014

A set of simple stack effects for inspiration. The main idea is to have one item shown initially and then, on some trigger, more items are revealed as decoration. As ...

Fullscreen Overlay Effects

By Mary Lou on February 6, 2014

Some simple and creative overlay styles and effects. From sliding the overlay into the viewport to using SVG morphing shapes, we explore some effects for fullscreen ...

Scattered Polaroids Gallery

By Mary Lou on January 28, 2014

A flat-style Polaroid gallery where the items are scattered randomly in a container. When a specific item is selected, it will move to the middle while the other Pol ...

Dot Navigation Styles

By Mary Lou on January 21, 2014

Today we'd like to share some subtle effects and styles for simple dot navigation with you. These styles could, for example, be used for a page scroll navigation or ...

“Look Inside” Book Preview with BookBlock

By Mary Lou on January 14, 2014

A "look inside" book preview with BookBlock. A concept for book showcases or online book stores that shows a grid of books with the options to view the details and t ...

SVG Drawing Animation

By Mary Lou on December 30, 2013

A little experiment that explores the usage of SVG line drawing animations to precede the appearance of graphics or website elements, simulating the loading of them. ...

Merry Christmas with a Bursting Gift Box

By Mary Lou on December 24, 2013

The Codrops team wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! A big "Thank You" from us in form of a little demo with a bursting animated gift box and so ...

Perspective Page View Navigation

By Mary Lou on December 18, 2013

Some effects for a perspective page view navigation where the page itself gets pushed away in 3D to reveal a menu or other items. This navigation idea is seen in mob ...

Progress Button Styles

By Mary Lou on December 12, 2013

A set of flat and 3D progress button styles where the button itself serves as a progress indicator. 3D styles are used for showing the progress indication on one sid ...

Elastic Stack: Elastic Dragging Interaction

By Mary Lou on November 12, 2013

ElastiStack is a little script that let's you navigate through a stack of items by dragging away the first one. It comes with an elastic touch meaning that when drag ...

Animated SVG Icons with Snap.svg

By Mary Lou on November 5, 2013

Using SVGs on websites is becoming more and more easy with great libraries like Snap.svg. Today we want to explore what we can do with it and animate some SVG icons ...

Multi-Item Selection

By Pedro Botelho on October 29, 2013

Ever thought that clicking on multiple checkboxes is not a very user-friendly task? Imagine rows and rows of junk mail that you'd like to select in your email app. T ...

Animations for Thumbnail Grids

By Mary Lou on October 23, 2013

There are many parts of a website where we can apply nice transitions to make things more interesting. Images are certainly great entities for playing with fancy eff ...

Animated Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with SVG

By Mary Lou on October 15, 2013

By animating an SVG path with JavaScript, we can do many fancy things. Today we want to show you some effects for checkboxes and radio buttons. The idea is to hide t ...

A Collection of Separator Styles

By Mary Lou on October 3, 2013

A collection of separator styles for horizontally dividing sections on a website. The dividers are created using several techniques, including styling pseudo-element ...