![]() ![]() Here it is, as furiously transcribed by Vulture-adjacent opening-night moviegoers for your edification.Īnd will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, Since long lines and elusive tickets will delay the Force Awakens experience for many fans, we figured that seeing the film’s crawl text might help readers understand the assorted online plot discussions taking place. How to use Helvetica Neue Light correctly in CSS.One of the most enduring images from the Star Wars family of films occurs before the movies have even begun: the expository opening crawl, which sets the scene for each episode so the plots can hit the ground running. Tuesday, ApCSS, Typography, Web Development Helvetica Neue Light Just a quick CSS tip for styling placeholder text on inputs.įriday, MaCSS, Web Development CSS glow effects with box-shadowĪ really nice touch to add to a form, or any other elements you might want to highlight. Wednesday, ApCSS, Web Development Styling placeholder text in a form input Here’s how you can use the new -webkit-backdrop-filter property to build cool iOS-like transparency effects with CSS. Tuesday, FebruCSS, Web Development Building iOS-like transparency effects in CSS with backdrop-filter Wednesday, AugCSS, Web Development Making intrinsic ratio elements with a max heightĪ little CSS technique I wrote for making elements with a fixed ratio that can also be constrained to a maximum height. Update: After almost ten years hosting this on my website, I’ve moved it over to CodePen, go check it out there. Here’s hoping these new CSS3 features make it to other browsers soon enough. (Update: I’ve removed the audio file to prevent any legal complications).Īnd that’s it! It’s pretty impressive how much you can accomplish these days with nothing but standards-based HTML and CSS. But there’s one thing missing: John Williams’s legendary score! Hilariously, despite doing everything else in pure HTML and CSS, we’ll need a single line of JS to ensure the music in the audio element on the page starts playing at the correct time, 12 seconds after the page loads: setTimeout("document.getElementById('audio').play()", 12000) ![]() The -webkit-transform-style set to preserve-3d allows me to rotate the crawl correctly in 3D space, and not have it be flattened on its plane.Īnd with that, the Star Wars opening crawl starts playing, and should match pretty closely the theatrical version. The key here is the translateY properties, which, combined with the perspective properties I had previously set on the container, ensure that the crawl’s vanishing point is in the correct place. Similar to the previous animation, I’m setting appropriate delay and duration lengths to ensure the crawl appears on the screen and disappears into the distance at the correct time. The first step is setting up the stage where the opening crawl will render: body Nothing else supports the CSS and 3D transforms and animations I used (yet), but I just wanted to see if it could be done. ![]() Caveats: It only works in Safari 5 and the WebKit Nightly. I’m done: the Star Wars opening crawl, built using only HTML & CSS. Sunday, NovemCSS, Web Development The Star Wars opening crawl in HTML & CSS I’m very proud of this technological terror I’ve constructed.
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