CSS3 Image Hover Overlay Animation

byCodingFlicks -February 08, 2024

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CSS3 Image Hover Overlay Animation is a special visual effect applied to images on a webpage to try to attract the user's attention. When a user hovers their cursor over an image, subtle transitions such as fading effects, scaling effects, etc. occur. This type of CSS animation helps to draw users' attention to the images on the website. The following video tutorial shows how to create a simple image hover effect. Subscribe to our YouTube channel if you find our content helpful.

CSS Image Hover Overlay Animation or CSS Image Hover Effects are essential in web design for several reasons. Some of these are visual feedback, increased user engagement, brand personality and identity, highlighting important information, seamless integration with design, etc. A beautiful image hover effect can be created using various techniques of conventional CSS animations. Since CSS animations are very simple and flexible, it ensures a seamless user experience across different platforms and devices. Hovering each image will have a transform scale animation and text overlay effect.

ADD HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<!-- codingflicks.com -->
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>CSS Image Hover with Text Overlay Animation</title>
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="wrapper">
        <a href="#" title="Product Image"><img src="1.jpg" alt=""></a>
        <a href="#" title="Product Image"><img src="2.jpg" alt=""></a>
        <a href="#" title="Product Image"><img src="3.jpg" alt=""></a>
    </div>      
</body>
</html>

ADD CSS:

body {
	display: grid;
	place-items: center;
	min-height: 95vh;
	background: linear-gradient(to right, #47a2ff, #336efe);
}
.wrapper {
	width: 100%;
	max-width: 1170px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	display: flex;
	flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.wrapper a {
	position: relative;
	text-align: center;
	text-decoration: none;
	width: 100%;
	margin: 10px;
	overflow: hidden;
	font-family: montserrat;
	font-size: 18px;
	letter-spacing: 3px;
	box-shadow: 0 2px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
	.wrapper a {
		width: 48%;
	}
}
@media (min-width: 1200px) {
	.wrapper a {
		width: 30%;
	}
}
.wrapper a::after {
	display: block;
	background-color: #000;
	color: white;
	content: attr(title);
	left: -100%;
	padding: 8px;
	position: absolute;
	text-align: center;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	bottom: 12%;
	width: 85%;
	z-index: 3;
	border-radius: 0 40px 40px 0;
}
.wrapper a img {
	border: none;
	display: block;
	width: 100%;
	height: auto;
	z-index: 1;
	transition: 1.5s;
}
.wrapper a:after {
	transition: all 500ms ease;
}
.wrapper a:hover img {
	transform: rotate(-5deg) scale(1.2);
}
.wrapper a:hover:after {
	left: 0;
}

CSS3 image hover animation has many other benefits including increasing user engagement, and providing visual feedback. Hence, every website should add this type of CSS animation to improve the website's aesthetics and overall user experience. Click the Load More button on our website to get other code snippets. Thanks for visiting our website.

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