How to Animated Loading

How To Create a Web/HTML Loader

When a visitor clicks on a link or button on your website, they expect to see some kind of feedback. But, if nothing happens, most will conclude that something is wrong. They’ll quickly navigate away before they realize your site has been processing their request.

What is a loading animation?
Loading animations are notifications that reassure users that the system is still handling their request. When a user clicks on a link or button, the animation is displayed until the load process is complete.

Some animations have progress bars that indicate how long it will take for data or content to load. This gives users a real-time update — or distraction — that makes waiting more bearable.

There are many different tools that can build loading animations. However, one of the most practical ones is CSS. Let’s explore why in the section below.

CSS for Loading Animations
To be clear, you could use another coding language like JavaScript (JS) or a simple animated GIF for your loader.

However, CSS has some strengths that make it a practical solution for this purpose:

It’s easy to edit. You can quickly adjust the duration, color, speed, and other animation elements.
It doesn’t lose quality when it changes scale.
Animations are fast and smooth with graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration (faster than JS).
It’s possible to pause with the animation-play-state property.
CSS loading animations may not be supported by some browsers, such as Internet Explorer 9 and Opera Mini. If you’re not sure if it’s supported, tools like Modernizr can tell you if they are. For browsers that don’t support CSS loading animations, you can use a GIF instead.

Now that we’ve explained when you should use CSS (and when you shouldn’t), let’s look at some loading animations that were built using this coding language.

Examples of CSS Loading Animations
There are a variety of loading animations you can create with CSS. Here are the five most common types, with multiple examples of each.

Page loading or object loading or AJAX loading samples.
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