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Subhransu Patra
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Animate on click with Javascript!

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Animation with js? Not too much tough but if you are new to javascript, like me, then at first it would be a little bit difficult but with time, you would be coping up with it. So, lets start the topic of 'Animate on click with Javascript!'

First create a HTML file...

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Animate on click with Javascript!</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>
body {
  margin: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>
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Then add any tag such as <a> or <p>. It is upto you which tag you will use to animate...

<p>Hello World!</p>
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Here I used <p> tag. Then create an id="" for it. Let's name it animate. You can use anything...

<p id="animate">Hello World!</p>
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Then we need a button so that if we clicked on it, it would animate as per our needs...

<button>Click to Animate</button>
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then in the <button> tag add onclick="". It is very much essential for onclick animation.

<button onclick="beyblade()">Click to Animate</button>
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I have put beyblade() in onclick="". () is very much essential...

Then add <script> in the body...

<script>

</script>
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and in that add

<script>
function beyblade() {

}
</script>
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The text after function will be the one you have written in onclick="" i.e. I have written onclick="beyblade()", the same I will write after function i.e.

function beyblade() {
}
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So, let's take the element that we take be x. So to do this, implement..

<script>
function beyblade() {
let x = document.getElementById("animate")
}
</script>
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then add the following component...

<script>
function beyblade() {
let x = document.getElementById("animate")
x.style.marginLeft = "300px"
x.style.transition = "1s"
}
</script>
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x.style.transition will create transitions and 1s will create timing for it.

You can implement any css component in place of marginLeft such as x.style.color = red it will change the text color to red and x.style.backgroundColor = blue will change the background color to blue.

It helps us to create a hamburger menu also.

So, this is for today. I hope you liked the article and if you, then please notify me.

Full Code..

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Animate on click with Javascript!</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>
body {
  margin: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<p id="animate">Hello World!</p>

<button onclick="beyblade()">Click to Animate</button>

<script>
function beyblade() {
let x = document.getElementById("animate")
x.style.marginLeft = "300px"
x.style.transition = "1s"
}
</script>

</body>
</html>
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Thanks for your time. 😺

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Bimochan Shrestha

Let's not give id like that p It confuses the reader to feel like it's a paragraph tag.

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Subhransu Patra

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