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Reputation: 1971

Page Transition with AngularJS and CSS Animations

I'm working on a basic AngularJS app. This app will have pages that are going to be defined within templates. When a user changes pages, I want to be able to show the other page with a basic animation. Currently, my app is doing this. However, the previous page drops below the new page and sort of flickers. I can't figure out why this is happening. Here is my code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" ng-app="app">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>My HTML File</title>

    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.0rc1/angular.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.0rc1/angular-route.js"></script>        
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.0rc1/angular-animate.js"></script>  

    <style type="text/css">
      .myAnimation { height:480px; width:640px; overflow:hidden; }
      .myAnimation.ng-enter { animation-duration: .3s; animation-name: fadeIn; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.71,.55,.62,1.57); }
      .myAnimation.ng-leave { animation-duration: .3s; animation-name: fadeOut; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.71,.55,.62,1.57); }

      @keyframes fadeIn {
        from { opacity: 0; transform: scale(.9, .9); }
        to { opacity: 1; transform: scale(1, 1); }
      }

      @keyframes fadeOut {
        from { opacity: 1; }
        to { opacity: 0; }
      }
    </style>    
  </head>

  <body style="margin:0; padding:0;"> 
    <ul style="list-style-type:none; margin:0px; padding:0px;">
      <li style="display:inline;"><a href='#page1'>Page 1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
      <li style="display:inline;"><a href='#page2'>Page 2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
    </ul>

    <div style="display:block; border:1px solid black;">
      <div ng-view class="myAnimation"></div>
    </div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
      angular.module('app', ['ngRoute', 'ngAnimate']).
        config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
      $routeProvider.
        when('/page1', {templateUrl: 'views/page1.html', controller: Page1Ctrl}).
            when('/page2', {templateUrl: 'views/page2.html', controller: Page2Ctrl}).
            otherwise({redirectTo: '/page1'});
      }]);

      function Page1Ctrl($scope, $http) {
      }

      function Page2Ctrl($scope, $http) {
      }
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

How do I prevent the scrollbar from appearing when I change pages? And prevent the older page from dropping below the new page?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2272

Answers (1)

mattaningram
mattaningram

Reputation: 307

It's likely that you need to give the animated divs a position:absolute; style during the animations.

What is happening is that the second template is being loaded into the DOM while the first template is still doing the fade-out animation. Without position:absolute they do what is natural and start block stacking until the first template has fully faded out and Angular removes it.

Keep in mind if you add position:absolute you may also have to play with the "Top" value to position it correctly depending on which parent element has position:relative or absolute.

You can put the position:absolute class on the animated div generally, or just specifically on the animating classes depending on what works better for your app structure.

Upvotes: 1

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