This project was build using front end technologies, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, to generate an off-canvas menu based on material design principles. It contains four main features:
- Animated toggle button
- Animated off canvas menu
- Animated Menu Items
- Touch/click ripple effect
The animated toggle button is a neat button created with pure CSS. It's a hamburger icon by default, and animates into an arrow (indicating a close button) when the menu is active/open.
The menu is initially hidden from view, and when the toggle switch is hit, it animates into view. It bumps the main content to the side, and also adds a mask over it. Clicking the mask or the toggle switch again closes the menu, animating it out of view.
While the menu slides into view, each item in the menu animates into view with a slight delay. This adds a little layer of neat animation to the menu.
The touch/click ripple effect is an effect that creates a little animation, mimicking a ripple, expanding outwards from the point of contact with the user. This effect is mentioned and displayed quite a bit in the material design spec, and I replicated it with CSS and JavaScript.
This project makes use of a few modern techniques:
- Transitions, transforms, and animations
- Transition events
- The
classListJavaScript method to add, remove, and check classes.
If you want full browser support, you're going to have to implement the necessary fallbacks and polyfills.
This project was tested in the following browsers:
- Chrome 39
- Safari 8
- Firefox 34
Anyone else willing to run tests in other browsers, please let me know the results! Any issues, please file them accordingly.
Licensed under the MIT license, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Copyright 2014, Call Me Nick