A nice concept applied on a Material Design-inspired application sidebar.

The sidebar becomes elastic when you try to pull it away from the side. Made only with CSS, a border forms smoothly around the text, when you hover over the “HOVER” instruction. Some use SVG animation, others use CSS transform for basic animation, and the rest use the help of JavaScript.

Here I have compiled some amazing animated SVG. JS is good practice for creating animation. Another way is by using JavaScript engines such as GSAP or Snap. You can use both the built-in SVG animation functionality or CSS3 animation (note that not everything can be done by CSS so there is still need for JavaScript).

Working with SVG, we enjoy good browser support for SVG animation, and we have more ways to create new animation. However, due to the limitations of HTML elements in creating patterns, shapes, and others, they naturally turn to SVG, which offers more interesting capabilities. Designers used to create animations in HTML elements using CSS.

Animated svg icons free download