Best online tutorial for beginner web designers to learn how to create CSS javascript MouseMove Cursor Trail effect with three easy steps.
In this article, I have collected all events that can be generated with a mouse. In HTML 4 There are a few well-supported events ported by the previous version of the specification.
Mouse Trail Javascript App
Step 1:
Create file and write the following HTML Coding on editor then save as .html extension.
HTML Code:
Step 2:
- Waving Mouse Trail. By Corey Ogburn on Dec 12. More Miscellaneous JavaScript Snippets. No Left Click on Mouse Button.
- Simple Image Trail Use this script to add a simple image trail to your webpage. A single image follows the mouse around, and is configurable in several ways, from x and y offsets from the cursor to length of time it should appear on page.
Create another file and write the following CSS Coding on editor then save as .css extension.
CSS Code:
Step 3:
Create another file and write the following Javascript Coding on editor then save as .js extension.
Javascript Code:
Mouse Trail Javascript Games
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I wanted to make something that would add some flair to my website, and after seeing another developer implement something similar on their website I figured I'd give it a shot. My first attempt was much simpler, just drawing a line from the last point to the new point then fading out the whole canvas. Check out version 1 here.
However this method had some issues and was very inflexible, so I eventually went about making a better version that keeps track of all active points and animates them individually. Perhaps a bit more complicated, but doing it by hand allows for much more customization without any noticeable drop in performance.
The new version works by keeping track of all visible points in an array and updating them all on every (requestAnimation)Frame:
Each point gets a different color and width depending on how long its been alive until it reaches a set maximum lifetime and dies (is removed from the queue). This allows the trail to 'fade' out into a different color before disappearing. In my example I have the point going from purple to blue as it fits the theme of my site:
Another concern of mine was mobile; for whatever reason it seems that some mobile devices emit the mousemove event on touch/drag, and this was causing weird jumpy cursor trails to appear for mobile users. Since smartphones don't (usually) have cursors anyways, I decided to just disable the animation if the user had no pointer device attached by checking a matchMedia conditional before starting it:
(This surprisingly has 98.12% support, how had I not heard of it beforeā½)
Mouse Trail Javascript Game
Anyways, throw all this into a component and you'll get a fancy mouse trail animation! Full code below:
Javascript Mouse Trail Effects
Thanks for reading, hope you find this useful!