Animated Clock: Pure CSS

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Appeal of CSS Clocks

Building a working clock face with nothing but CSS is one of those challenges that teaches you more about the rendering engine than any tutorial. There is no JavaScript driving the hands. No setInterval ticking away in the background. Just CSS transforms, animation keyframes, and a precise understanding of how transform-origin determines the pivot point of a rotating element.

Jan Jatam’s pure CSS clock takes this constraint and produces something genuinely elegant. The clock face is clean, the hands move with believable physics, and the whole thing runs on the browser’s animation engine with no scripting overhead.

Clock on Give 'n' Go

Animated Clock: Pure CSS

The Appeal of CSS Clocks