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Flight Slider in HTML + CSS

Alvaro Montoro on February 06, 2024

Last week, I created an input range that looks like a plane flying to its destination (move the plane right and left): I tried to add as many ...
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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

I'd like the scale oscillation it has when moving from 0 to 0.5 and then 1, great trick with the shadow too.

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Alvaro Montoro • Edited

That's where I used the trigonometry functions: sin(0) = 0, sin(Ο€/2) = 1, and sin(Ο€) = 0. So I used the range value to calculate the scale multiplying by pi.

The same trick was used for the shadow: farther and lighter at the middle part, and closer and darker at the edges.

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Edited

Wow! That's really cool! You know, me I'm different, haha. I would probably have used a base64 SVG for the plane, a shadow filter (for the shadow obviously), and create a function in JS to generate the oscillation and assign it to a custom property. But I would hardly have thought an almost pure CSS solution for that. I checked your YouTube channel and website, keep doing what you love.

Have you considered creating beautiful layouts and components? I'm pretty sure that with your skills, you can create things that standout and that other devs would love to follow along you in your tutorials to create stuff for their portfolios and websites, just a suggestion.

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Alvaro Montoro

Thank you. To be fair, using SVG and JavaScript with this component –even if only one more line than what I added–, could improve the experience considerably. About the components... Maybe I could try?

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Well, haha, it was just a suggestion... I mean, is what I personally thought it could help you to get more audience, because you have an hability that not everyone has.

You know, just yesterday I uploaded a redesign of my portfolio website, in it I used oscillation in elements that scale according to the scroll, I already had that but your plane shadow slider inspired me to add some glows that oscillate too You can check it if you want to, I used JS to generate the value but the styles are handle with CSS vars and calc.

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Nathan G Bornstein

Any time I see folks doing pure CSS solutions when they could've easily chosen another tech to make their life that much easier, I have to give credit where its due. That's such a zen approach and honestly, such a flex. It's impressive as heck.

Also, @schemetastic, sick portfolio! That has so much charm and personality to it

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Edited

Thanks Nathan! It was a lot of hard work, I hope one day it pays off.

Interesting music you have there by the way, haha.

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Nathan G Bornstein

Hahaha, my one true motive for being on this platform: promoting my crappy folk punk band 😈

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Well... is working then, hahaπŸ˜‚

β€œDepression is One Hell of a Drug (Imbalance)” seems pretty deep, and yes, negative thoughts are addictive I've experienced that many times! But once you embrace positive thoughts they become addictive too, but they require more efforts to produce.

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Scott Reno

Very cool demo!

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks!

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Piko

I freaking love it!

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teaganga

Looks really nice!

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Riti Rathod

Great

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Arol

The trigonometry functions just blow my mind... That's amazing, Álvaro!!!

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BBM

This is really cool

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Aditya Pandey

This is really cool

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Nice job! I'd like to suggest that you add outline: none to the input to remove the outline, as it does look a bit strange.

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Otherwise, it's awesome!

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Alvaro Montoro

Thank you! About the outline, I cannot remove outline: none because it would be an accessibility issue... but it does look a bit weird. Maybe I could reduce it to just the airplane? Or the bar but not the airplane?

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Oh, I see! Perhaps the bar only would look better. I'm not very good at making style changes, though. Do what you think is best. Again, awesome project!

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Mardeg

Love it! All that CSS to create a ✈️ and 🚁 when I would've just used an emoji rotated to point them in the right direction.

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Abrar Ali

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