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How to Create Loading Blur Text Animation Effect using HTML and CSS ?

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The blur text animation is known as the Smoky effect and it is used to give our text a blurry animation. The text blurs linearly in one direction and then reappears.

Approach: The approach of this article is quite simple. We are animating the blur effect using the blur() function. Then we are using n-th child property to apply the animation delay. Now let’s dive straight into the code.

HTML Code: We have created a div element and the loading text characters are wrapped inside a span element.




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>GeeksforGeeks</title>
</head>
  
<body>
    <div class="geeks">
        <span>G</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>k</span>
        <span>s</span>
        <span>f</span>
        <span>o</span>
        <span>r</span>
        <span>G</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>k</span>
        <span>s</span>
    </div>
</body>
  
</html>


CSS Code:

  • Step-1: The first step is simple we have aligned our text to center and provide a background to our body.
  • Step-2: Then we have provided a linear animation with keyframe identifier as animate.
  • Step-3: Now we use keyframes to apply blur function to different frames of the animation.
  • Step-4: The final step is the application of n-th child concept to provide an animation delay to each character so that only one character gets blurred at one point of time.




<style>
    body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        background: green;
    }
  
    .geeks {
        position: absolute;
        top: 50%;
        left: 50%;
        transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
        font-size: 30px;
        font-weight: 800;
        letter-spacing: 5px;
    }
  
    .geeks span {
        animation: animate 3s linear infinite;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(1) {
        animation-delay: 0s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(2) {
        animation-delay: 0.1s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(3) {
        animation-delay: 0.2s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(4) {
        animation-delay: 0.3s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(5) {
        animation-delay: 0.4s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(6) {
        animation-delay: 0.5s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(7) {
        animation-delay: 0.6s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(8) {
        animation-delay: 0.9s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(9) {
        animation-delay: 0.8s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(10) {
        animation-delay: 0.9s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(11) {
        animation-delay: 1s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(12) {
        animation-delay: 1.1s;
    }
  
    .geeks span:nth-child(13) {
        animation-delay: 1.2s;
    }
  
    @keyframes animate {
        0% {
            filter: blur(0);
        }
  
        40% {
            filter: blur(20px);
        }
  
        80% {
            filter: blur(0);
        }
  
        100% {
            filter: blur(0);
        }
    }
</style>


Complete Code: In this section, we will combine both the above two sections to create a loading text animation effect.




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
          
    <title>Document</title>
    <style>
        body {
            margin: 0;
            padding: 0;
            background: green;
        }
  
        .geeks {
            position: absolute;
            top: 50%;
            left: 50%;
            transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
            font-size: 30px;
            font-weight: 800;
            letter-spacing: 5px;
        }
  
        .geeks span {
            animation: animate 3s linear infinite;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(1) {
            animation-delay: 0s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(2) {
            animation-delay: 0.1s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(3) {
            animation-delay: 0.2s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(4) {
            animation-delay: 0.3s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(5) {
            animation-delay: 0.4s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(6) {
            animation-delay: 0.5s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(7) {
            animation-delay: 0.6s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(8) {
            animation-delay: 0.9s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(9) {
            animation-delay: 0.8s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(10) {
            animation-delay: 0.9s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(11) {
            animation-delay: 1s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(12) {
            animation-delay: 1.1s;
        }
  
        .geeks span:nth-child(13) {
            animation-delay: 1.2s;
        }
  
        @keyframes animate {
            0% {
                filter: blur(0);
            }
  
            40% {
                filter: blur(20px);
            }
  
            80% {
                filter: blur(0);
            }
  
            100% {
                filter: blur(0);
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
  
<body>
    <div class="geeks">
        <span>G</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>k</span>
        <span>s</span>
        <span>f</span>
        <span>o</span>
        <span>r</span>
        <span>G</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>e</span>
        <span>k</span>
        <span>s</span>
    </div>
</body>
  
</html>


Output:



Last Updated : 27 Apr, 2020
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