How to create text-reveal effect using HTML and CSS ?

Last Updated : 12 Apr, 2021

Text-reveal is a type of effect in which all the alphabets of the text are revealed one by one in some animated way. There are uncountable ways to animate text for this effect. It up to your creativity that how you want the text to reveal. We will look at a basic and easy way to get started.
Approach: The approach is to use keyframes to animate frames to slowly reveal the text frame-wise.
HTML Code: In HTML, we have used <h1> tag wrapped inside a <div> tag.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Text Reveal Animation</title>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="geeks">
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    </div>
</body>
 
</html>

CSS Code: For CSS, follow these steps:

Step 1: First we have done some basic styling like providing a background color, aligning text to center, etc.
Step 2: Then use animation property with identifier named as animate.
Step 3: Now use keyframes to animate each frame and set different height and width for each frame.

Tip: You can change the value of height and width used in each frame to reveal text in a different way.

CSS

<style>
    body {
        background: green;
    }
 
    .geeks {
        width: 20%;
        top: 50%;
        position: absolute;
        left: 40%;
        border-bottom: 5px solid white;
        overflow: hidden;
        animation: animate 2s linear forwards;
    }
 
    .geeks h1 {
        color: white;
    }
 
    @keyframes animate {
        0% {
            width: 0px;
            height: 0px;
        }
        30% {
            width: 50px;
            height: 0px;
        }
        60% {
            width: 50px;
            height: 80px;
        }
    }
</style>

Complete Code: It is the combination of the above two section of codes.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content=
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Text Reveal Animation</title>
 
    <style>
        body {
            background: green;
        }
 
        .geeks {
            width: 20%;
            top: 50%;
            position: absolute;
            left: 40%;
            border-bottom: 5px solid white;
            overflow: hidden;
            animation: animate 2s linear forwards;
        }
 
        .geeks h1 {
            color: white;
        }
 
        @keyframes animate {
            0% {
                width: 0px;
                height: 0px;
            }
            30% {
                width: 50px;
                height: 0px;
            }
            60% {
                width: 50px;
                height: 80px;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="geeks">
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    </div>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

One more animated method

HTML Code: The following code snippet creates HTML div element which contains the text for modification.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Colleting Data</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-TX8t27EcRE3e/ihU7zmQxVncDAy5uIKz4rEkgIXeMed4M0jlfIDPvg6uqKI2xXr2" crossorigin="anonymous">
   
</head>
<body class="container" style="margin-top: 50px; width: 50% height:auto; ">
 
<div class="text-typing">
   
<p>Geeks For Geeks </p>
 
</div>
</html>

CSS Code: For CSS, follow theses steps:

Step 1: First we have done some basic styling like providing a background color, aligning items to center, etc.

Step 2: Then use animation property with identifier named as text-typing p.

Step 3: Now use keyframes to animate from width 0 to 100%..

HTML

<style >
      body {
  margin:0px;
  height:100vh;
  display:flex;
  align-items:center;
  justify-content:center;
  background:#ddd;
}
.text-typing {
  padding:20px 30px;
  background:#f5f5f5;
  font-size:35px;
  font-family:monospace;
  border-radius:50px;
}
.text-typing p {
  margin:0px;
  white-space:nowrap;
  overflow:hidden;
  animation:typing 4s steps(22,end) forwards,
            blink 1s infinite;
}
@keyframes typing {
  0% { width:0% }
  100% { width:100% }
}
@keyframes blink {
  0%,100% {
    border-right:2px solid transparent;
  }
  50% {
    border-right:2px solid #222;
  }
}
 
    </style>

Complete Code: It is the combination of the above two section of codes.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Colleting Data</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-TX8t27EcRE3e/ihU7zmQxVncDAy5uIKz4rEkgIXeMed4M0jlfIDPvg6uqKI2xXr2" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <style >
      body {
  margin:0px;
  height:100vh;
  display:flex;
  align-items:center;
  justify-content:center;
  background:#ddd;
}
.text-typing {
  padding:20px 30px;
  background:#f5f5f5;
  font-size:35px;
  font-family:monospace;
  border-radius:50px;
}
.text-typing p {
  margin:0px;
  white-space:nowrap;
  overflow:hidden;
  animation:typing 4s steps(22,end) forwards,
            blink 1s infinite;
}
@keyframes typing {
  0% { width:0% }
  100% { width:100% }
}
@keyframes blink {
  0%,100% {
    border-right:2px solid transparent;
  }
  50% {
    border-right:2px solid #222;
  }
}
 
    </style>
</head>
<body class="container" style="margin-top: 50px; width: 50% height:auto; ">
 
<div class="text-typing">
   
<p>Geeks For Geeks </p>
 
</div>
</html>

Output

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