Animation Styles

Overview

Animation styles allow you to define reusable animation properties. The goal is to reduce the amount of code needed to animate components.

The supported animation styles are:

• Animation: animation composition, delay, direction, duration, fill mode, iteration count, name, play state, timing function

• Animation range: animation range, start, end, timeline

• Transform origin: transform origin

Defining animation styles

Animation styles are defined using the defineAnimationStyles function.

Here's an example of an animation style:

import { defineAnimationStyles } from "@chakra-ui/react"

const animationStyles = defineAnimationStyles({
  bounceFadeIn: {
    value: {
      animationName: "bounce, fade-in",
      animationDuration: "1s",
      animationTimingFunction: "ease-in-out",
      animationIterationCount: "infinite",
    },
  },
})

Built-in animation styles

Chakra UI provides a set of built-in animation styles that you can use.

Update the theme

To use the animation styles, update the theme object with the animationStyles property.

import { createSystem, defineConfig } from "@chakra-ui/react"
import { animationStyles } from "./animation-styles"

const config = defineConfig({
  theme: {
    extend: {
      animationStyles,
    },
  },
})

export default createSystem(defaultConfig, config)

After updating the theme, run this command to generate the animations.

npx @chakra-ui/cli typegen

These animation styles can be composed with other styles like _open and _closed which map to the data-state=open|closed attribute.

<Box
  data-state="open"
  animationDuration="slow"
  animationStyle={{ _open: "slide-fade-in", _closed: "slide-fade-out" }}
>
  > This content will fade in
</Box>