text-spinners

A clever idea for text-based spinners in CSS. You set the "keyframes" in the content, and cycle through them by moving the line of text to the left in the actual keyframes.

<button>Loading <span class="loading"></span></button>
.loading.bar2::after {
content: "\A\A\A\A\A\A\A";
animation: spin8 2s steps(8) infinite alternate;
}
@keyframes spin8 { to { transform: translateY(-12.0em); } }

This is a whole repo of them by Max Beier. I've isolated one of them here:

See the Pen text-spinners by Chris Coyier …

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