CSS3 background image transition

Question

I\'m trying to make a \"fade-in fade-out\" effect using the CSS transition. But I can\'t get this to work with the background image...

The CSS:

Answer 1

Try this, will make the background animated worked on web but hybrid mobile app not working

@-webkit-keyframes breath {
 0%   {  background-size: 110% auto; }
 50%  {  background-size: 140% auto; }
 100% {  background-size: 110% auto; }      
}
body {
   -webkit-animation: breath 15s linear infinite;
   background-image: url(images/login.png);
    background-size: cover;
}

Answer 2

You can transition background-image. Use the CSS below on the img element:

-webkit-transition: background-image 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: background-image 0.2s ease-in-out;

This is supported natively by Chrome, Opera and Safari. Firefox hasn't implemented it yet (bugzil.la). Not sure about IE.

Answer 3

The solution (that I found by myself) is a ninja trick, I can offer you two ways:

first you need to make a "container" for the <img>, it will contain normal and hover states at the same time:

<div class="images-container">
    <img src="http://lorempixel.com/400/200/animals/9/">
    <img src="http://lorempixel.com/400/200/animals/10/">
</div>

• with CSS3 selectors http://jsfiddle.net/eD2zL/1/ (if you use this one, "normal" state will be first child your container, or change the nth-child() order)

• CSS2 solution http://jsfiddle.net/eD2zL/2/ (differences between are just a few selectors)

Basically, you need to hide "normal" state and show their "hover" when you hover it

and that's it, I hope somebody find it useful.

Answer 4

You can use pseudo element to get the effect you want like I did in that Fiddle.

CSS:

.title a {
    display: block;
    width: 340px;
    height: 338px;
    color: black;
    position: relative;
}
.title a:after {
    background: url(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p1nr1fkWKUo/T0zUp5CLO3I/AAAAAAAAAWg/jDiQ0cUBuKA/s800/red-pattern.png) repeat;
    content: "";
    opacity: 0;
    width: inherit;
    height: inherit;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    /* TRANSISITION */
    transition: opacity 1s ease-in-out;
    -webkit-transition: opacity 1s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: opacity 1s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: opacity 1s ease-in-out;
}
.title a:hover:after{   
    opacity: 1;
}

HTML:

<div class="title">
    <a href="#">HYPERLINK</a>
</div>

Answer 5

Considering background-images can't be animated, I created a little SCSS mixin allowing to transition between 2 different background-images using pseudo selectors before and after. They are at different z-index layers. The one that is ahead starts with opacity 0 and becomes visible with hover.

You can use it the same approach for creating animations with linear-gradients too.

scss

@mixin bkg-img-transition( $bkg1, $bkg2, $transTime:0.5s ){  
  position: relative;  
  z-index: 100; 
  &:before, &:after {
    background-size: cover;  
    content: '';    
    display: block;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0; left: 0;    
    width: 100%;    
    transition: opacity $transTime;
  }
  &:before {    
    z-index: -101;
    background-image: url("#{$bkg1}");    
  }
  &:after {    
    z-index: -100;
    opacity: 0;
    background-image: url("#{$bkg2}");    
  }
  &:hover {
     &:after{
       opacity: 1; 
     }
  }  
}

Now you can simply use it with

@include bkg-img-transition("https://picsum.photos/300/300/?random","https://picsum.photos/g/300/300");

You can check it out here: https://jsfiddle.net/pablosgpacheco/01rmg0qL/

Answer 6

If animating opacity is not an option, you can also animate background-size.

For example, I used this CSS to set a backgound-image with a delay.

.before {
  background-size: 0;
}

.after {
  transition: background 0.1s step-end;
  background-image: $path-to-image;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
}