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Adding an Animated Scroll Effect to your Images


In this tutorial, Solodev will show you how to add an animated scroll effect to your images using CSS and jQuery.

Animated images are more engaging to site visitors than static images. In this tutorial, Solodev will show you how to add an animated scroll effect to your website's images using animate.css and the viewport checker jQuery plugin. This will animate your images to display their full resolution as you scroll, providing an interactive user experience (UX).

This tutorial provides a simple implementation of a web page with this animated effect you can make your own. Below is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required.

Step 1 - index.html

Add the HTML below to your web page

A specific image can be given the animated scroll effect by giving it the class "featuredImage". Additionally, each image is initially given the "hiddenImg" class so that it is not visible upon immediate page load.


Step 2 - index.css

Download the CSS below and include it in your web page

 index.css

Step 3 - scroll.js

Copy and paste the JavaScript below into a new file called scroll.js and include it in your web page

The following jQuery will initialize the effect, finding each "featuredImage" class and appending the necessary animation classes.


Step 4 - Add the includes below to your web page

In this article, Solodev showed you how to add an animated scroll effect to your website's images. Swap out the images and copy to make it your own!


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