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I built these 5 types of loading animation in HTML and CSS, which do you prefer?

Adeyele Paul on April 22, 2024

As a lover of clean UI design and smooth animations, I've always been fascinated by the creative possibilities of the humble loading state. From mi...
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Samuel Rouse

I particularly love the shapeshifting amorphous blob!

Animations like in this article may be good candidate for embedded CodePen, if you are interested.

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Adeyele Paul

Yeah, thank you for letting me know

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amiceli

Same, this loading is very beautiful.
Thanks for CodePen link, I can look it a long time ^^.

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Glenn

Really liked the blob loader...

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akbaran

I like how compact your code is. I can't believe that people can animate some things using only CSS! My favorite is The Pulsing Dots. Nice work.

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Kote Isaev - #StandWithUkraine

morphing dots are the best, IMO.
The basic spinner (1st animation) is very good too. I would consider to use centered background with website logo (and larger radius), for cases when site has logo, and loader used for some medium-long page-wide or blocking data loading...

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Rodolfo Silva

shape shifting is really dope!

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Timilehin

This is really nice,it an eye opener

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Danish Asif

I was waiting for animation to load 😂

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Udaygiri D. Aparnathi

Bro 😎 just mind blowing 😉

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Adeyele Paul

Thank you!

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Udaygiri D. Aparnathi

Hello @peboy can I have your Instagram I'd so I can follow you and contact you?

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Jesse

They all have a charm about them, but I like the 3rd and 4th best :). The blob has a modern sleekness about it, but I like the simplicity and color of the 4th too ❤️

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Mugisa Jackson

It is waoo and thank you

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Future_Developer

Awesome! Design

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Succidy

This is great!!

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Lisa Cee

I really like the pulsing dots. Staggering the delay is a clever way to get that effect.

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Navjot Singh

Pulsing Dots o O o

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Jazz_listner🇿🇦

I loved them all, in my experience I've always had a problem with the X and Y axis. My problem is I don't know how and when to use them.

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Alimi Kehinde Morufudeen

I Love this article. It is well presented and illustrative.

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Jordan Humberto de Souza

I liked the 3rd the most.

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Govardhana

First one

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Μάριος

Nice 👍 I like the last one !

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Arize Nnonyelu

Omo well done.

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BobbyleeX

Great work, It a very cool animation.

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Bart97coder

really great advice

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CitronBrick

1
I might have chosen 4, if the size difference between the "active" dot & the other 2 was more noticeable.

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akbaran

Interesting!

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Romeo

It's captivating how you illustrate and explain things. Very good writing skill.
You would be a good copywriter.

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Adeyele Paul

Smiles.... Thank you Romeo 😀

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Happily.ai

awesome

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Naval

The morphing blob was superb. How did you come up with those radius values, just wanna know the thought process yk

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Valeria

Interesting!