We need a container element which will be hovered and then the image inside it should animate accordingly, i.e. It’s already known to those who are good at CSS, and now it’s your turn. All you need to know is couple of CSS3 properties and you are good to go, leave the trickery part on me, because it’s a bit more than just knowing CSS properties. Quick CSS snacks for Image hover-zoom effectsĭoing a hover zoom in CSS is quite a simple thing. If you were thinking of JS to bring about this simple effects, you need to know that you can do it with pure CSS too without any JavaScript involvement–because CSS3 is powerful enough to animate things in the browser. Now, you might think of getting this done with jQuery firsthand, but wait! Why would you go for JavaScript when you have CSS there to do that for you?
See the demo first to get a better overview. You might have also seen this effect on many modern blog designs. I have worked on more than a few web layouts which demanded the blog post thumbnails to zoom-in when hovered but within a container element. Here, viewport is not the screen, but a smaller container wrapping our image. A simple animation for example, could be zooming-in images on hover event - within a specific viewport container. Published on Jby Rahul CSS Image hover zoom effects Image hover Zoom n’ Rotate effect with Pure CSS