Many of us hope to improve user experience by displaying loaders and spinners while users wait for a page to be loaded due to some server to client communication, promises to be resolved or basically any function waiting to be executed or data waiting to be retrieved from the server before finally rendering the page to the user.
I personally think skeleton screens give the illusion of “it’s almost about to show” while loaders and spinners make it feel like “it’s trying to show hopefully” that is why you find Facebook, Slack, LinkedIn and Co using skeleton screens.
The idea is, Whenever someone requests new content from the server, you can immediately start showing the skeleton, while data is being loaded in the background. Once the content is ready, simply swap the skeleton for the actual card. This can be done with plain vanilla JavaScript or using a library like Angular, React, Vue etc.
Now you could use an image to display the skeleton, but that would introduce an additional request and data overhead. We’re already loading stuff here, so it’s not a great idea to wait for another image to load first. Plus it’s not responsive, and if we ever decided to adjust some of the content card’s styling, we would have to duplicate the changes to the skeleton image so they’d match again.
What I observe is –
Lets Code –
.head-section:empty, .profile-img-section:empty, .text1:empty, .text2:empty, .text3:empty, .text4:empty{ animation: loading 1.1s infinite linear; background: #dedfe1; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(to right, #dedfe1 0%, #f2f3f5 20%, #dedfe1 40%, #dedfe1 100%); background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #dedfe1 0%, #f2f3f5 20%, #dedfe1 40%, #dedfe1 100%); background-repeat: no-repeat; }
The first argument accepts an expression that defines the animation states or the direction between two transition states, and the second argument is an array that accepts some set of parameters like animate(), style() e.t.c.The animate() is similar to the animate CSS property while style() will contain the CSS styles for the animation states.
@keyframes loading { 0% { background-position: -100px; } 100% { background-position: 200px; } }
Check out the stackblitz demo here –
I am hoping this article will help you to understand the aspects of skeleton screen loading animation. To discuss more about the concept of css skeleton loading, share your queries in the comment section.
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