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How to build a CSS animation that "slides in", revealing a text/div after it finishes sliding?

I am trying to mimic the CSS animations from a website here: https://stanographer.com/
I want to copy the way the site:
starts by showing a full screen black div sliding away to the right
"loads" the black background (div tags) behind text (as in "Hi, I'm Stanley Sakai"), expanding left to right and
"loads" the text over the black background div, expanding left to right.
Now you might ask, "Why not just inspect the page, look at the classes on the divs and text, then inspect the CSS sheet in the network tab?" And I've tried that. The CSS looks weird. My friend said it is pre-processed by SASS, whatever that means. Anyway, I cannot decipher the code.
I've been to a few different StackOverflow pages (here's one) & over a dozen different pages on Google. I learned about using keyframes but I haven't figured out how to recreate the effect on Stanographer.com. My friend, who owns the website, also provided this example, but I don't get how to apply it to individual divs. He said something about using the z-index but I just don't see it.
I know that to make the page start with a full black screen & then slide out, I have to trigger a class change using JavaScript. I have:
let blackStuff = document.getElementById("blackness");
window.addEventListener("load", () => {
console.log("loaded");
blackStuff.setAttribute("class", "black-box-out");
},
false
);
.black-box {
position: fixed;
float: left;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #000;
z-index: 999999;
-webkit-animation: powerslide 0.5s forwards;
-webkit-animation-delay: 2s;
animation: powerslide 0.5s forwards;
animation-delay: 2s;
}
#-webkit-keyframes powerslide {
100% {
left: 0;
}
}
#keyframes powerslide {
100% {
left: 0;
}
}
.black-box-out {
margin-left: 100%;
animation: slide 0.5s forwards;
-webkit-transition: slide 0.5s forwards;
transition: slide 0.5s forwards;
}
<div id="blackness" class="black-box"></div>
But this just makes the "blackness" div disappear instantly on page load. I want it to slide out. Clearly, I don't get how to use CSS animations.
If you are interested in seeing more of what doesn't work, read on. Otherwise, you can skip this section: it only shows my failed trials.
I've learned how to make a CSS animation expand horizontally from 0:
.wrapper {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
width: 500px;
height: 50px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.slide-custom {
width: 500px;
height: 50px;
background: cyan;
position: relative;
-webkit-animation: slideIn 2s forwards;
animation: slideIn 2s forwards;
}
/* moz and webkit keyframes excluded for space */
#keyframes slideIn {
0% {
transform: scaleX(0);
}
100% {
transform: scaleX(1);
}
}
<div class="wrapper slide-custom">
<h1 class="slide-custom">
<span>MEET ROLY POLY.</span>
<!-- expands horizontally from 0 width to 100% width -->
</h1>
</div>
And I've learned to make text "slide in" from the left, though it starts at 100% width when I want it to start at 0% width:
/* CSS */
.test-slide {
animation-duration: 3s;
animation-name: testSlide;
}
#keyframes testSlide {
from {
margin-left: 0%;
width: 50%;
}
to {
margin-left: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
}
<div class="test-slide">
<h1><span>ABOUT.</span></h1>
<!-- will slide in from the left -->
</div>
There's more -- unfortunately none of it mimics the website I'm trying to copy.

Explanation
There are multiple ways to achieve what you want actually. I did not opt to animate width. The first few frames of the animation will be not as expected.
So instead, we can use clip-path. What clip-path basically does is masking. You can "crop" a div such that only a part of it is visible. We will utilise clip-path and ::before or ::after pseudo-element (either is fine) to create this animation. What we need to do:
Create the pseudo-element and position it such that it covers (is on top) the whole animatable element (position: absolute)
Set the pseudo-element's background to black
Using clip-path, mask the animatable element to display no parts of the element (this will also cause the pseudo-element to not be displayed as it is part of the element). The direction of the clipping is important. The direction here is from the right side to the left side.
Using animation and #keyframes, unmask the previously masked div. This will reveal it slowly from the left side to the right side (because initially, we masked it from the right to left; upon unmasking, the reverse direction happens)
Upon unmasking the element, the pseudo-element will be on top of the text we want to display
After a short while later, mask the pseudo-element (not the whole element) from the right direction to the left direction, again using clip-path so that the text seems revealed slowly
It works! However, I recommend reading about clip-path. Also, one really handy clip-path CSS generator I really like to use is this (if you want to clip from the right to left, you should drag the points from the right to left). I also highly recommend reading about CSS positioning (a staple in good CSS animations). You needn't be using z-index: 9999; you generally want to keep track of the z-index you use.
Solution
Here's a working solution using the described method. Try running it.
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Helvetica;
}
body,
html {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
background: #555555;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
color: white;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
#wrapper * {
margin: 5px;
}
.heading {
font-size: 3em;
padding: 10px 5px;
}
.caption {
font-size: 1em;
padding: 5px;
font-family: Courier;
}
.animatable {
position: relative;
clip-path: polygon(0 0, 0 0, 0 100%, 0% 100%);
animation: .75s cubic-bezier(1,-0.01,.12,.8) 1s 1 reveal forwards;
}
.animatable::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: #20262b;
padding: inherit;
animation: .75s cubic-bezier(1,-0.01,.12,.8) 1.75s 1 hideBlack forwards;
}
#keyframes reveal {
from { clip-path: polygon(0 0, 0 0, 0 100%, 0% 100%); }
to { clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%); }
}
#keyframes hideBlack {
from { clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%); }
to { clip-path: polygon(100% 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 100% 100%); }
}
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="heading animatable">Hi, I am Richard!</div>
<div class="caption animatable">I am a person.</div>
</div>
Although the simple animation you wanted can be created using merely CSS, I still suggest you read about how to make animations using JavaScript and the various libraries it has in making animations. This is because once there are many animations and transitions going on, it becomes hard to keep track of animations (especially when you want animations to start after another animation ends). A good library is anime.js (do explore more options before settling on one). Furthermore, notice how the animations only appear upon scrolling down in the website you provided? That's doable only with JS (one such method is using IntersectionObserver API provided by most browsers).

Here you have some CSS3 animations, you trigger that animation when the .entrance-animation gets the .active class.
You'll need an observer to watch when the item gets into view and, when the item is visible, you add the .active class to it.
Hope it helps!
setTimeout(() =>
{
let animate = document.querySelectorAll('.entrance-animation');
animate.forEach(item => item.classList.add('active'));
}
,1000);
.entrance-animation
{
position: relative;
color: blueviolet;
white-space: nowrap;
font-size: 24px;
width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
transition: width 0.5s ease;
}
.entrance-animation::before
{
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-color: black;
z-index: 10;
transition: width 0.5s ease;
transition-delay: 0.5s;
}
.entrance-animation.active
{
width: 100%;
}
.entrance-animation.active::before
{
width: 0%;
}
<p class="entrance-animation">
Hello
</p>
<p class = "entrance-animation">
Here we are
</p>

You can use CSS3 transitions or maybe CSS3 animations to slide in an element.
For browser support: http://caniuse.com/
I made two quick examples just to show you how I mean.
CSS transition (on hover)
Demo One
Relevant Code
.wrapper:hover #slide {
transition: 1s;
left: 0;
}
In this case, Im just transitioning the position from left: -100px; to 0; with a 1s. duration. It's also possible to move the element using transform: translate();
CSS animation
Demo Two
#slide {
position: absolute;
left: -100px;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: blue;
-webkit-animation: slide 0.5s forwards;
-webkit-animation-delay: 2s;
animation: slide 0.5s forwards;
animation-delay: 2s;
}
#-webkit-keyframes slide {
100% { left: 0; }
}
#keyframes slide {
100% { left: 0; }
}
Same principle as above (Demo One), but the animation starts automatically after 2s, and in this case I've set animation-fill-mode to forwards, which will persist the end state, keeping the div visible when the animation ends.
Like I said, two quick example to show you how it could be done.
EDIT: For details regarding CSS Animations and Transitions see:
Animations
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_CSS_animations
Transitions
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using_CSS_transitions
Hope this helped.

animation works once when opening a cart drawer and then doesn't work afterwards

I've been dealing with this bug for some time and I cannot figure out what to do.
I have two simple CSS animations for opening and closing the cart.
.animate-close-cart {
animation: closeCart 0.2s 0s 1 linear forwards;
}
#keyframes closeCart {
from {
transform: translateX(-35%);
}
to {
transform: translateX(0);
}
}
.animate-open-cart {
animation: openCart 0.2s 0s 1 linear forwards;
}
#keyframes openCart {
from {
transform: translateX(0);
}
to {
transform: translateX(-35%);
}
}
upon clicking my cart button I add or remove the appropriate class:
Opening the cart:
value: function _openMiniCart() {
var mainWrapper = document.getElementById("main_wrapper");
mainWrapper.classList.remove("animate-close-cart");
mainWrapper.classList.add("animate-open-cart");
}
Closing the cart:
value: function _closeMiniCart() {
var mainWrapper = document.getElementById("main_wrapper");
mainWrapper.classList.remove("animate-open-cart");
mainWrapper.classList.add("animate-close-cart");
}
The main_wrapper block is wrapped around my entire webpage:
<body>
<div id="main_wrapper">
// header, template, page contents etc.
<div/>
</body>
Opening the cart the animation plays, the web page moves to the left showing the cart. Perfect.
Closing the cart the animation plays, the web page moves back to the right, hiding the cart.
Then...
Opening it once again, the webpage just jumps without animation to the left, showing the cart,
But closing it, it plays the animation and moves back to the right.
Every open after the first initial open always makes the webpage just immediately jump to -35%.
I don't know how to debug this or what could be causing this issue.
edit:
With CSS transform the same bug where it only offers a smooth transition on the first open cart, all other open carts jump immediately:
#main_wrapper {
transition: transform 0.2s;
}
.animate-close-cart {
transform: translateX(0);
}
.animate-open-cart {
transform: translateX(0);
}

So when you say the entire page moves, do you mean you slide the main content screen a bit out of view? Or you allow the blocks to keep everything visible on both sides if they're both available? I'm not sure I'm understanding the intent correctly but here's an example of an effect I've used in the past if it helps accomplish your goal. Otherwise a reproducible example of your pain points instead of just snippets would likely make it more clear to find you a solution. Cheers.
toggleMe = () => {
const side = document.getElementById('side-wrapper');
side.classList.toggle('slide-me');
}
#main-wrapper {
height: 80vh;
width: 80vw;
margin: 2rem;
border: red 5px dashed;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
overflow: hidden; /* make this visible if you want to see in action */
}
#section-wrapper, #side-wrapper {
outline: #fff 3px dashed;
outline-offset: -10px;
}
#section-wrapper {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-color: #00f;
}
#side-wrapper {
height: 100%;
width: 350px;
background-color: #0f0;
margin-right: -350px;
transition: margin-right 1s ease-in-out;
}
.slide-me {
margin-right: 0 !important;
}
#example input:checked:after {
content: 'SIDE IS OPEN';
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 1rem;
color: green;
}
<label id="example">
Click to toggle side slide
<input type="checkbox" onclick="toggleMe()">
</label>
<div id="main-wrapper">
<div id="section-wrapper"></div>
<div id="side-wrapper"></div>
</div>

jQuery - Click Add/Remove Class - Multiple Buttons

For some reason when I add the second click function it stops working completely. I was wondering if anybody could help pin point what the issue might be?
What I'm trying to do:
The default state is "day" and when "night" is clicked, it removes the day class and adds the night class. Which changes the background image. Which works... Sort of. However, when I add the function for the day button to add the day class and remove the night class is breaks and doesn't work.
Here's a fiddle of what I have: http://jsfiddle.net/790hqykq/3/
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.night').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('night');
$('#room').removeClass('day');
});
$('.day').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('day');
$('#room').removeClass('night');
});
});
Thanks!!
Edit: Also - Is there any way to fade this class change? Similar to fadeIn/fadeOut? Thanks!

jsFiddle Demo
The problem with your fiddle is that the #room element has the class day. So does the anchor element. When the event handler is setup
$('.day').click(function () {
It is also assigned to the room element, and as a result of that, #room ends up also having the event handler attached to it. This causes day to always be selected as the element's class, even when night is clicked.
You should consider changing the class name to something like daycolor and nightcolor
<div id="room" class="daycolor">
and
#room.daycolor {
background: #00CCFF;
}

The element with ID room has the class day, as one of the elements within it.
When you attach the handler, it's being attached to both elements.
This should solve your problem:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.timeButton.day').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('day').removeClass('night');
});
$('.timeButton.night').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('night').removeClass('day');
});
});
As per your complement about fading, you can use CSS 3 to achieve this:
#room {
-webkit-transition: background 0.5s linear;
-moz-transition: background 0.5s linear;
-ms-transition: background 0.5s linear;
-o-transition: background 0.5s linear;
transition: background 0.5s linear;
}
Demo

Change the classnames on your children elements and use that selector for your events.
jsFiddle
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="room" class="day">
<a class="timeButton day1">Day</a>
<a class="timeButton night1">Night</a>
</div>
</div>
JS:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.night1').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('night');
$('#room').removeClass('day');
});
$('.day1').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('day');
$('#room').removeClass('night');
});
});
Style:
#container {
width: 300px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#container a, #container div {
float: left;
display: block;
}
#room {
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
}
#room.day {
background: #00CCFF;
}
#room.night {
background: #0000CC;
}
#room .day1 {
left: 30px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#room .night1 {
right: 30px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#room .timeButton {
position: absolute;
width: 80px;
height: 25px;
top: 30px;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
}
#room .timeButton:hover {
background: #fff;
}

Here is another solution, where I just change the css-style via jquery.
Javascript:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.day').click(function () {
$('#room').css("background-color", "#00CCFF");
});
$('.night').click(function () {
$('#room').css("background-color", "#0000CC");
});
});
Also you need to add a background-color to #room:
background: #00CCFF;
Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/790hqykq/7/

In your script, you reference to ".night" instead ".nightButton".
$('.nightButton').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('night');
$('#room').removeClass('day');
});
$('.dayButton').click(function () {
$('#room').addClass('day');
$('#room').removeClass('night');
});
To achieve the transition, you can add this CSS propertie to #room.
-webkit-transition: background 2s; /* For Safari 3.1 to 6.0 */
transition: background 2s;
http://jsfiddle.net/790hqykq/13/

you can add css3 for the transitions from day to night.
it wont working in older IE browsers 9 and under but is excellent in all modern browsers.
browser support. You can use this generator to make the code faster.
#room {
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
-webkit-transition: background 1000ms ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: background 1000ms ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: background 1000ms ease-in-out;
-o-transition: background 1000ms ease-in-out;
transition: background 1000ms ease-in-out;
}
Demo jsfiddle

Recreating a text animation (source within)

I would like to recreate the text animation seen in this screen video I did of this website theme: http://themeforest.net/item/js-responsive-theme/full_screen_preview/7630276
Here is the video to show you the animation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HFm_t_vjVpVUNiWVRVdW14aWs/edit?usp=sharing
I am unsure of where to begin and cannot find anything like it through my search so far, I am open to anything to create this such as jQuery. Thank you for any help!

I'd do this with two absolute positioned texts, one gray (or semi transparent) second one, on top set to overflow:hidden. Then I'd just animate the width of the second container.
How do You like the idea? :)
edit:
little tweaking, but idea the same - fiddle for You: http://jsfiddle.net/Lr4PQ/
quite important CSS rule:
white-space: nowrap;
to prevent breaking lines when width of text node is smaller than text's.
edit 2:
Of course, idea behind lets You to achieve the result using pure CSS, jQuery's role is just animating width.
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="text upper">You`re the boss</div>
<div class="text ">You`re the boss</div>
</div>
CSS:
body {
background:#000;
}
.container {
position:absolute;
left:30%;
top:20%;
width:auto;
/*position container as You wish*/
}
.text {
text-transform:uppercase;
font-family:sans-serif;
color:#FFF;
opacity:.2;
white-space: nowrap;
font-size:30px;
}
.text.upper {
position:absolute;
opacity:1;
overflow:hidden;
width:0%;
}
jQuery:
$('.text.upper').animate({width:'100%'},3000).animate({width:'0%'},3000);

The animation is achieved in pure CSS3:
jsBin demo
HTML:
<div class="modal">
<h1 data-content="YOUR BEAUTIFUL NAME">YOUR BEAUTIFUL NAME</h1>
</div>
CSS:
.modal h1 {
color: #626161;
font-size: 30px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -125px;
margin-top: -15px;
position: absolute;
text-align: center;
top: 50%;
}
.modal h1:before {
animation: 5s ease 0s normal none 1 loading;
-o-animation: 5s ease 0s normal none 1 loading;
-ms-animation: 5s ease 0s normal none 1 loading;
-moz-animation: 5s ease 0s normal none 1 loading;
-webkit-animation: 5s ease 0s normal none 1 loading;
color: #E2E2E2;
content: attr(data-content);
max-width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
white-space:nowrap;
}
#keyframes loading {
0% { max-width: 0%; }
}
#-o-keyframes loading {
0% { max-width: 0%; }
}
#-ms-keyframes loading {
0% { max-width: 0%; }
}
#-moz-keyframes loading {
0% { max-width: 0%; }
}
#-webkit-keyframes loading {
0% { max-width: 0%; }
}
One of the reason they used a single h1 instead of overlaying two h1 elements and animating the second's one width is simply cause for a better SEO a page should contain only one h1 element. Also using content: attr(data-content); is quite fun so...

How to zoom out a div using animations?

I have a DIV that is covering the whole page (height and width are 100%). I am trying to use CSS (and possibly JavaScript) to create a zoom out animation effect so the DIV is smaller (making everything inside the div - its children - smaller as well) to a specific point on the page (middle of the page) and to a specific width and height (let's say 100 * 100px for example).
I am starting with the following code:
<div id="toBeZoomedOut">
<div>something</div>
<div><img src="background.jpg"></div>
</div>
#toBeZoomedOut {
background-color: black;
border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
color: white;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
-webkit-transition: 1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: 1s ease-in-out;
transition: 1s ease-in-out;
}
#toBeZoomedOut img {
height: 250px;
width: 250px;
}
#toBeZoomedOut:hover {
zoom: 0.5;
}
The issue with this code is that it zooms out on component down (the parent div) and immediately zooms out what's inside it then goes back to zoom in the components.
Basically it is a little buggy. Any helpful fixes to make it zoom out everything together? It would be great if I can zoom out everything together to a specific location on the page and to a specific width/height (for example, zoom everything out to left: 100px, top: 100px and the parent div should be: 100px * 100px and everything else is relative in size).
I understand this might be easier with JavaScript? Any help?
One final note, if you notice the animation is not really reflecting a zoom animation. Although this would be an additional plus, the actual zoom animation would be great.
JSFiddle link to make it easier: http://jsfiddle.net/HU46s/

I am using the universal selector to target everything inside of the parent container to have the css transitions applied to it.
The next thing I did was changed the inside contents width to a % for ease of scaling.
Here is the css:
#toBeZoomedOut * {
-webkit-transition: all 1s ease;
-moz-transition: 1s ease;
transition: 1s ease;
}
Finally, a fiddle: Demo

To make all images and div backgrounds zoom at the same time you have to use percentage size for #zoomer-inside elements and set a specific font-sizes...
However is not smooth, if you want a smoother result, I suggest you use a jQuery in combination with some animation() method or plugin.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/HU46s/1/
Code:
#toBeZoomedOut {
background-color: black;
border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
color: white;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}
#toBeZoomedOut div, #toBeZoomedOut img {
width: 90%;
font-size: 20px;
}
#toBeZoomedOut img {
height: 90%;
width: 90%;
}
#toBeZoomedOut:hover {
zoom: 0.5;
}
smoother by jQuery:
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/HU46s/5/
Code:
jQuery - smoother solution (even less CSS):
$('#toBeZoomedOut').hover( /* change the animation speed as you want :) */
function(){
$(this).animate({ 'zoom': 0.5}, 400); //animation speed 400=0.4s !
},
function(){
$(this).animate({ 'zoom': 1}, 400); //animation speed 400=0.4s !
}
);
...with this only CSS you need is:
#toBeZoomedOut {
background-color: black;
border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
color: white;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#toBeZoomedOut img {
width: 250px;
}