CSS3 Loading elements

CSS3 Loading elements

In our new tutorial I will show you how to create pure CSS3 loading elements (without any images). I think that it can be interesting for you in order to decrease amount of extra images in your project. I prepared three different loading elements. Now, lets check how I made them.

Live Demo
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So, lets start


Step 1. HTML

You can see here three elements – our ‘loading’ elements. All of them are very easy – parent element with set of inner DIVs.

div class="main_body"
    div class="element"
        div class="loading1"
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
        /div
    /div
    div class="element"
        div class="loading2"
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
        /div
    /div
    div class="element"
        div class="loading3"
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
            div/div
        /div
    /div
/div

Step 2. CSS

Now, the most interesting step, I will give you styles of each ‘loading’ element. Welcome to check styles of first one:

.loading1 {
    height:100px;
    position:relative;
    width:80px;
}
.loading1  div {
    background-color:
    height:30px;
    position:absolute;
    width:12px;
    /* css3 radius */
    -moz-border-radius:5px;
    -webkit-border-radius:5px;
    border-radius:5px;
    /* css3 transform - scale */
    -webkit-transform:scale(0.4);
    -moz-transform:scale(0.4);
    -o-transform:scale(0.4);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-name:loading1;
    -webkit-animation-duration:1.04s;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -webkit-animation-direction:linear;
    -moz-animation-name:loading1;
    -moz-animation-duration:1.04s;
    -moz-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -moz-animation-direction:linear;
    -o-animation-name:loading1;
    -o-animation-duration:1.04s;
    -o-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -o-animation-direction:linear;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(1) {
    left:0;
    top:36px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(-90deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(-90deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(-90deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.39s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.39s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.39s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(2) {
    left:10px;
    top:13px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(-45deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(-45deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(-45deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.52s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.52s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.52s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(3) {
    left:34px;
    top:4px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(0deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(0deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.65s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.65s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.65s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(4) {
    right:10px;
    top:13px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(45deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(45deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(45deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.78s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.78s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.78s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(5) {
    right:0;
    top:36px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(90deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.91s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.91s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.91s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(6) {
    right:10px;
    bottom:9px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(135deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(135deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(135deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.04s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.04s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.04s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(7) {
    bottom:0;
    left:34px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(180deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(180deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(180deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.17s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.17s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.17s;
}
.loading1  div:nth-child(8) {
    left:10px;
    bottom:9px;
    /* css3 transform - rotate */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(-135deg);
    -moz-transform:rotate(-135deg);
    -o-transform:rotate(-135deg);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.3s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.3s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.3s;
}
/* css3 keyframes - loading1 */
@-webkit-keyframes loading1 {
    0%{ background-color:#000000 }
    100%{ background-color:#FFFFFF }
}
@-moz-keyframes loading1 {
    0%{ background-color:#000000 }
    100%{ background-color:#FFFFFF }
}
@-o-keyframes loading1 {
    0%{ background-color:#000000 }
    100%{ background-color:#FFFFFF }
}

As you can see – I used CSS3 animation with keyframes, each step (point) is separated with delay with each other. Now, please review styles of our second ‘loading’ element:

.loading2 {
    height:140px;
    position:relative;
    width:140px;
    /* css3 transform - scale */
    -webkit-transform:scale(0.6);
    -moz-transform:scale(0.6);
    -o-transform:scale(0.6);
}
.loading2  div {
    background-color:
    height:25px;
    position:absolute;
    width:25px;
    /* css3 radius */
    -moz-border-radius:15px;
    -webkit-border-radius:15px;
    border-radius:15px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-name:loading2;
    -webkit-animation-duration:1.04s;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -webkit-animation-direction:linear;
    -moz-animation-name:loading2;
    -moz-animation-duration:1.04s;
    -moz-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -moz-animation-direction:linear;
    -o-animation-name:loading2;
    -o-animation-duration:1.04s;
    -o-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -o-animation-direction:linear;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(1) {
    left:0;
    top:57px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.39s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.39s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.39s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(2) {
    left:17px;
    top:17px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.52s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.52s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.52s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(3) {
    left:57px;
    top:0;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.65s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.65s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.65s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(4) {
    right:17px;
    top:17px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.78s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.78s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.78s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(5) {
    right:0;
    top:57px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.91s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.91s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.91s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(6) {
    right:17px;
    bottom:17px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.04s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.04s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.04s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(7) {
    left:57px;
    bottom:0;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.17s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.17s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.17s;
}
.loading2  div:nth-child(8) {
    left:17px;
    bottom:17px;
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.3s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.3s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.3s;
}
/* css3 keyframes - loading2 */
@-webkit-keyframes loading2 {
    0%{ background-color:#000000 }
    100%{ background-color:#FFFFFF }
}
@-moz-keyframes loading2 {
    0%{ background-color:#000000 }
    100%{ background-color:#FFFFFF }
}
@-o-keyframes loading2 {
    0%{ background-color:#000000 }
    100%{ background-color:#FFFFFF }
}

I used here the same idea as for the first element, but, with slightly changed styles. And finally – our third ‘loading’ element:

.loading3  div {
    background-color:
    border:1px solid 
    float:left;
    height:114px;
    margin-left:5px;
    width:30px;
    opacity:0.1;
    /* css3 transform - scale */
    -webkit-transform:scale(0.8);
    -moz-transform:scale(0.8);
    -o-transform:scale(0.8);
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-name:loading3;
    -webkit-animation-duration:1.2s;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -webkit-animation-direction:linear;
    -moz-animation-name:loading3;
    -moz-animation-duration:1.2s;
    -moz-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -moz-animation-direction:linear;
    -o-animation-name:loading3;
    -o-animation-duration:1.2s;
    -o-animation-iteration-count:infinite;
    -o-animation-direction:linear;
}
.loading3  div:nth-child(1) {
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.24s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.24s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.24s;
}
.loading3  div:nth-child(2) {
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.48s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.48s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.48s;
}
.loading3  div:nth-child(3) {
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.72s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.72s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.72s;
}
.loading3  div:nth-child(4) {
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:0.96s;
    -moz-animation-delay:0.96s;
    -o-animation-delay:0.96s;
}
.loading3  div:nth-child(5) {
    /* css3 animation */
    -webkit-animation-delay:1.2s;
    -moz-animation-delay:1.2s;
    -o-animation-delay:1.2s;
}
/* css3 keyframes - loading3 */
@-webkit-keyframes loading3 {
    0% {
        -webkit-transform:scale(1.2);
        opacity:1;
    }
    100% {
        -webkit-transform:scale(0.7);
        opacity:0.1;
    }
}
@-moz-keyframes loading3 {
    0% {
        -moz-transform:scale(1.2);
        opacity:1;
    }
    100% {
        -moz-transform:scale(0.7);
        opacity:0.1;
    }
}
@-o-keyframes loading3 {
    0% {
        -o-transform:scale(1.2);
        opacity:1;
    }
    100% {
        -o-transform:scale(0.7);
        opacity:0.1;
    }
}

Live Demo
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Conclusion

That is all for today. We have just created three different ‘loading’ elements. I hope that everything have been easy for you and you like result. Good luck!