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Showing and Hiding Elements you own this product

This project is part of the liveProject series CSS Animations and Transitions
prerequisites
basic HTML • basic CSS • intermediate JavaScript
skills learned
expand/collapse accordions • rotate elements • disable animations according to user preferences
Martine Dowden
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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My Little Cookie Shop’s website looks pretty nice, but there’s a problem with an accordion feature on the store’s page. Instead of allowing the user to expand or collapse pastry categories, the content abruptly appears and vanishes. To make sure Max’s competitive edge doesn’t vanish, too, you’ll make the sections glide open and close, as well as fix an arrow’s rotation problems, using CSS and JavaScript. Also, to respect all users, you’ll use media query to disable animations for users whose browser settings indicate they prefer reduced motion.

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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Martine Dowden

An award-winning CTO, UX/UI designer and developer, international speaker, and author, Martine focuses on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, and accessible. She approaches user experience from both art and science perspectives, drawing from her degrees in psychology and visual communications. She has worked as a developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. To stay active in the industry she writes articles, leads workshops, and speaks at conferences and meetups worldwide. Her favorite topics to present are frontend web development, CSS, user experience, interaction design, accessibility, and Firebase. In recognition of her work in the community, she was awarded and still maintains the Google Developer Expert (GDE) status and the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).


In 2015, she published a children’s book, Programming Languages ABC++, of which the workbook edition sold over 20,000 copies in 2016. She then went on to write Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success, which was released in June 2019, and Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Stylesheets in 2020.


Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for frontend development.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for frontend developers who know how to write an HTML page with divs, paragraphs, images, buttons, links, and form fields. To begin these liveProjects you will need to be familiar with the following:


TOOLS
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • A code editor of your choice (for example Visual Studio Code, Atom, Notepad++)
  • A modern browser (for example Chrome, Firefox, Edge)
TECHNIQUES
  • Basic HTML
  • Basic CSS
  • Intermediate JavaScript

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll use CSS to animate accordions and arrows for a smooth and polished UX, and overcome the limitations of CSS animations with JavaScript:


  • Add rotation to the arrows
  • Animate the opening/closing of accordion panels
  • Make animations accessible
  • Use media query to disable animations according to user preferences

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