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Spice Up Your Text with scrambleJs: Effortless Animated Typography ✨

Tired of static, boring text on your web projects? Want to add a touch of dynamic flair without wrestling with complex animation libraries? Then let me introduce you to scrambleJs, a lightweight JavaScript library designed to bring your text to life with captivating animation effects!

Imagine headlines that shimmer and reveal themselves, interactive elements that respond with a satisfying digital glitch, or even subtle text transitions that guide the user's eye. scrambleJs makes these possibilities a breeze.

✨ What Makes scrambleJs Special?

This isn't your average animation library. scrambleJs focuses specifically on text, offering a curated set of powerful and easy-to-use features:

  • 🪄 Effortless Scramble & Reveal: Animate text appearing and disappearing with a classic scrambling effect. Customize the duration and easing to get the perfect feel.
  • 🎨 Ready-to-Use Presets: Jumpstart your creativity with built-in presets like glitch, cyberpunk, and typewriterScramble. Apply stunning effects with a single line of code.
  • 🔄 Smooth Text Morphing: Transition seamlessly between different text strings using a captivating scramble as the intermediary. Perfect for dynamic updates!
  • ➡️ Directional Control: Control the flow of the animation! Scramble and reveal text forwards, backwards, or even from the center.
  • 🎭 Visual Masking: Get creative with reveals! Use other HTML elements as masks to control where the animation is visible.
  • 🖱️ Interactive Animations: Trigger text effects on user interactions like hover or scroll, adding a layer of delightful responsiveness.

🚀 Get Started in a Flash

Integrating scrambleJs into your project is incredibly simple.

Via CDN:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/scramble-js@latest/dist/scramble.min.js"></script>
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Or via npm:

npm install scramble_type
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const scrambleLib = new scrambleJs();
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✍️ A Taste of the Magic - Basic Usage

Let's animate a heading with a simple scramble effect:

HTML:

<h1 id="my-heading">Ready to be Scrambled!</h1>
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JavaScript:

const heading = document.getElementById('my-heading');
const scrambleLib = new scrambleJs();

scrambleLib.animateText(heading, {
  step: { duration: 1500 } // Scramble for 1.5 seconds
});
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Boom! Your heading will now elegantly scramble into view.

🕹️ Playing with Presets

Want that cool "glitch" effect? It's as easy as this:

const glitchText = document.getElementById('glitch-text');
const scrambleLib = new scrambleJs();

scrambleLib.animateText(glitchText, {
  preset: 'glitch'
});
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⚙️ Diving Deeper - Key Configuration Options

The animateText function is your main tool. Here are some key options to customize your animations:

scrambleLib.animateText(myElement, {
  step: {
    duration: 1000, // Scramble duration
    easing: 'ease-out-cubic', // Choose from various easing functions
    customLetters: '#$%&' // Use specific characters for scrambling
  },
  revert: {
    duration: 800 // Duration for reverting to the original text
  },
  morphTo: 'New Exciting Text!', // Morph to a different text string
  morphDuration: 1200,
  interactive: { type: 'mousemove' } // Trigger on mouse movement
  // ... and many more! Check the docs for the full API.
});
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📚 Explore the Full Potential

This is just a glimpse of what scrambleJs can do! Dive into the full documentation and explore the examples to unlock its full potential.

🤝 Contribute and Make it Better!

scrambleJs is open-source, and I'd love your feedback, bug reports, and contributions! Check out the repository on GitHub.

Let's make the web a little more visually engaging, one scrambled letter at a time! What cool text animations will you create with scrambleJs? Share your creations in the comments below!

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