Collection of hand-picked free HTML and CSS animated background code examples from Codepen, Github and other resources. Update of April 2021 collection. 9 new items.
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CSS Only Pattern Animation
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Gradient Background with Waves
Gradient background with some waves on the bottom of the page. If you want a different background for you website or app this is a simple way.
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Blurred Animated Gradients
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Bubble Background Animation
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Hexagon Background with 0 HTML
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CSS linear-gradient Animations
Animating a stack of linear-gradients.
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Floating Color Orbs
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Shooting Star
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Bubble Float
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Falling Leaves CSS Animation
October falling leaves CSS animation CSS no JavaScript.
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Noise Background
CSS only animated static noise background.
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Pattern Animation (Infinite)
Used Flexbox to vertically and horizontally center text. Used keyframes
to set an infinite scroll.
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Responsive: yes
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Only CSS: Warning
Stripe background.
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Cool Mountain Background
Cool mountain background with animations - slightly responsive.
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Animated Ripples Background
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Infinite SVG Triangle Fusion
Triangles are created. Triangles are destroyed.
And so on and so forth. I am creating 60 SVGs that each contain 4 triangles (polygons). Each polygon loops through a color and animates outward from the center point of its parent SVG every 1 second. The entire animation repeats infinitely every 4 seconds.
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has aclip-path
to create a hexagon mask. When the hexagons are snapped together, the expanding triangles bleed evenly into the triangles of the adjacent hexagons until they disappear.
I used CSS Grid as a starting point, but I was still left with a bunch of well-mannered hexagons with empty space in between. To "connect" the hexagons, I identified thenth-children
that corresponds to a row and moved them up and over viatransform: translate;
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2kb Total Size SVG Animation
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Animated CSS Mask-Image Gradient
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CSS Fireflies
An elegant HTML/CSS only solution for adding a tranquil fireflies effect to you page.
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Pure CSS Particle Animation
CSS particle animation without JavaScript. The most important point is random movement of particles. The vignetting was created by mask-image
property.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Pure CSS Twinkling Stars Background
Subtle twinkling stars and moving clouds animation using only CSS.
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Background Effect
HTML and CSS background effect.
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Pure CSS Animated Background
Pure CSS animated background.
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Sliding Diagonals Background Effect
An animated background under the content.
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Background Animation
HTML and CSS background animation.
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Floating SVGS
Just a simple case study, with SCSS, showing a example on how to achieve some kind of 3D effect using blur and perspective.
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Animated Background
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Pure CSS3 Gradient Background Animation
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CSS Background Animation
Example of background animation using CSS.
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Retro-Futuristic Grid Background in CSS
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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ColorDrops
Tryin to create a canvas-like trail effect in CSS using gradients.
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Infinite Background Animation
Pure CSS infinite background animation.
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