CSS - animation-name

The animation-name CSS property specifies a list of animations that should be applied to the selected element. Each name indicates a @keyframes at-rule that defines the property values for the animation sequence.

Example

 

See CSS animations for examples.

Syntax  

CSS
animation-name: none;
animation-name: test_05;
animation-name: -specific;
animation-name: sliding-vertically;

animation-name: test1;
animation-name: test1, animation4;
animation-name: none, -moz-specific, sliding;

animation-name: <a href="css/initial">initial</a>
animation-name: <a href="css/inherit">inherit</a>
animation-name: <a href="css/unset">unset</a>

Values

<single-animation-name> is one of the following keywords:

none
Is a special keyword denoting no keyframes. It can be used to deactivate an animation without changing the ordering of the other identifiers, or to deactivate animations coming from the cascade.
<custom-ident>
A string identifying the animation. This identifier is composed by a combination of case-insensitive letters a to z, numbers 0 to 9, underscores (_), and/or dashes (-). The first non-dash character must be a letter (that is, no number at the beginning of it, even if preceded by a dash.) Also, two dashes are forbidden at the beginning of the identifier. It can't be none, unset, initial, or inherit in any combination of cases.

Formal syntax

CSS
<a href="css/animation-name#single-animation-name"><single-animation-name></a><a href="css/value_definition_syntax#hash_mark_(.23)" title="Hash mark">#</a><p>where <br><code><single-animation-name> = none <a href="css/value_definition_syntax#single_bar" title="Single bar">|</a> IDENT</code></p>

Description  

The animation-name CSS property specifies a list of animations that should be applied to the selected element. Each name indicates a @keyframes at-rule that defines the property values for the animation sequence.

It is often convenient to use the shorthand property animation to set all animation properties at once.

Initial valuenone
Applies toall elements, ::before and ::after pseudo-elements
Inheritedno
Mediavisual
Computed valueas specified
Animatableno
Canonical orderthe unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

Browser Compatibility  

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari (WebKit)
Basic support (Yes)-webkit
43.0
5.0 (5.0)-moz
16.0 (16.0)[1]
10  12 -o
12.10
4.0-webkit
Feature Android Firefox Mobile (Gecko) IE Phone Opera Mobile Safari Mobile Chrome for Android
Basic support ? ? ? ? ? ?

[1] In addition to the unprefixed support, Gecko 44.0 (Firefox 44.0 / Thunderbird 44.0 / SeaMonkey 2.41) added support for a -webkit prefixed version of the property for web compatibility reasons behind the preference layout.css.prefixes.webkit, defaulting to false. Since Gecko 49.0 (Firefox 49.0 / Thunderbird 49.0 / SeaMonkey 2.46) the preference defaults to true.

See Also  

Specifications  

Specification Status Comment
CSS Animations
The definition of 'animation-name' in that specification.
Working Draft Initial definition

License

© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/css/animation-name

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