I have a CSS Animation for a div that slides in after a set amount of time. What I would like is for a few divs to fill the space of the animated div that slides in, which it will then push those elements down the page.
When I attempt this at first div that slides in still takes up space even when it is not visible. If I change the div to display:none
the div doesn't slide in at all.
How do I have a div not take up space until it is timed to come in (using CSS for the timing.)
I am using Animate.css for the animations.
Here is what the code looks like:
<div id="main-div" class="animated fadeInDownBig"><!-- Content --></div>
<div id="div1"><!-- Content --></div>
<div id="div2"><!-- Content --></div>
<div id="div3"><!-- Content --></div>
As the code shows I would like the main div to be hidden and the other divs show at first. Then I have the following delay set:
#main-div{
-moz-animation-delay: 3.5s;
-webkit-animation-delay: 3.5s;
-o-animation-delay: 3.5s;
animation-delay: 3.5s;
}
It is at that point that I would like the main div to push the other divs down as it comes in.
How do I do this?
Note: I have considered using jQuery to do this, however I prefer using strictly CSS as it is smoother and the timing is a bit better controlled.
EDIT
I have attempted what Duopixel suggested but either I mis-understood and am not doing this correctly or it doesn't work. Here is the code:
HTML
<div id="main-div" class="animated fadeInDownBig"><!-- Content --></div>
CSS
#main-image{
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
-moz-animation-delay: 3.5s;
-webkit-animation-delay: 3.5s;
-o-animation-delay: 3.5s;
animation-delay: 3.5s;
}
#main-image.fadeInDownBig{
height: 375px;
}
CSS (or jQuery, for that matter) can't animate between display: none;
and display: block;
. Worse yet: it can't animate between height: 0
and height: auto
. So you need to hard code the height (if you can't hard code the values then you need to use javascript, but this is an entirely different question);
#main-image{
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background: red;
-prefix-animation: slide 1s ease 3.5s forwards;
}
@-prefix-keyframes slide {
from {height: 0;}
to {height: 300px;}
}
You mention that you're using Animate.css, which I'm not familiar with, so this is a vanilla CSS.
You can see a demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/duopixel/qD5XX/