Animate SVGs with pure CSS: hamburger toggles, spinners, line-draw effects, and new scroll-driven animations, plus tooling tips and fallbacks.

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SVG animations with CSS offer lightweight, scalable alternatives to GIFs and videos for web interfaces. The tutorial covers practical techniques including hamburger menu toggles, loading spinners, line-drawing effects, and scroll-driven animations. Key concepts include stroke manipulation with dasharray/dashoffset properties, CSS keyframes, transform animations, and the new scroll-driven animation API. Examples demonstrate icon animations, morphing loaders, drawable illustrations, and text effects. The guide includes optimization tips, four methods for applying CSS to SVG, and tooling recommendations like SVGator and Lottie for complex animations.

How to animate SVG with CSS: Tutorial with examples

Common use cases for animating SVG with CSS

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