I want to animate (transition) from 1 color to another in raw javascript.
I dont want to use any framework (jquery, mootools) or css3. plain raw javascript.
I have been really having trouble to do this, can someone help me out ? :)
I want to animate (transition) from 1 color to another in raw javascript.
I dont want to use any framework (jquery, mootools) or css3. plain raw javascript.
I have been really having trouble to do this, can someone help me out ? :)
if canvas would be ok you could try doing it like this ;)
Yes ;) it`s not perfect and just an excample but give it a try. Here is the complete pen on codepen.
Here is also my solution:
html at pastebin, how to call the timeout function - see for example 1, 2
One way might be to use setTimeout to call some function which incrementally changes the colour (I'm assuming background-color) by some small amount each time it's called. At each iteration, just check to see if you've arrived at your target colour and if not, increase or decrease your RGB value as necessary.
maybe something like this:
You can play around an try it out as a jsfiddle or check out the full working example below. You might want to improve this by using HSL/HSV colors, which gives you a prettier transition, but i'll leave that up to you.