animation-name

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2015.

The animation-nameCSS property specifies the names of one or more @keyframes at-rules that describe the animation to apply to an element. Multiple @keyframes at-rules are specified as a comma-separated list of names. If the specified name does not match any @keyframes at-rule, no properties are animated.

Try it

animation-name: none;

animation-name: slide;

animation-name: bounce;

<section class="flex-column" id="default-example"> <div class="animating" id="example-element"></div> </section>

#example-element { animation-direction: alternate; animation-duration: 1s; animation-iteration-count: infinite; animation-timing-function: ease-in; background-color: #1766aa; border-radius: 50%; border: 5px solid #333; color: white; height: 150px; margin: auto; margin-left: 0; width: 150px; } @keyframes slide { from { background-color: orange; color: black; margin-left: 0; } to { background-color: orange; color: black; margin-left: 80%; } } @keyframes bounce { from { background-color: orange; color: black; margin-top: 0; } to { background-color: orange; color: black; margin-top: 40%; } }

It is often convenient to use the shorthand property animation to set all animation properties at once.

Syntax

css

/* No animation */ animation-name: none; /* Single animation */ animation-name: test_05; animation-name: -specific; animation-name: "sliding-vertically"; /* Multiple animations */ animation-name: test1, animation4; animation-name: none, -moz-specific, sliding; /* Global values */ animation-name: inherit; animation-name: initial; animation-name: revert; animation-name: revert-layer; animation-name: unset;

Values

none: A special keyword denoting no keyframes. It can be used to deactivate an animation without changing the ordering of the other identifiers, or to deactivate animations coming from the cascade.
<custom-ident>: An unquoted name identifying the animation. This identifier is composed of a combination of case-sensitive letters a to z, numbers 0 to 9, underscores (_), and/or dashes (-). The first non-dash character must be a letter. Also, two dashes are forbidden at the beginning of the identifier. Furthermore, the identifier can't be none, unset, initial, or inherit.
<string>: A series of characters following the same rules as custom identifiers, as described above, except that they are surrounded by either double (") or single (') quotes. If using a quoted string for both the animation-name and the corresponding @keyframes at-rule name, none, global keywords, and names starting with an underscore or double dashes are valid, though not recommended.

Note: When you specify multiple comma-separated values on an animation-* property, they are applied to the animations in the order in which the animation-names appear. For situations where the number of animations and animation-* property values do not match, see Setting multiple animation property values.

Formal definition

Initial value	`none`
Applies to	all elements, `::before` and `::after`pseudo-elements
Inherited	no
Computed value	as specified
Animation type	Not animatable

Formal syntax

animation-name = 
[none|<keyframes-name>]#

<keyframes-name> = 
<custom-ident>|
<string>

Examples

Naming an animation

This animation has an animation-name of rotate.

HTML

html

<div class="box"></div>

CSS

css

.box { background-color: rebeccapurple; border-radius: 10px; width: 100px; height: 100px; } .box:hover { animation-name: rotate; animation-duration: 0.7s; } @keyframes rotate { 0% { transform: rotate(0); } 100% { transform: rotate(360deg); } }

Result

Hover over the rectangle to start the animation.

See CSS animations for examples.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Animations Level 1 # animation-name