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Rainbow text animation using only CSS

I got inspired by this Rainbow Text Animation rainbow-text-animation, and I would like to use only CSS to make this happen instead of all that complicated SCSS coding.

I got what I like so far and now I just want to make it go from left to right AND having multiple colors in one entire line instead of one color at a time.

Run the code snippet to see what I'm talking about.

So as you can see, I want as many colors I want in one line and not one color in the entire line (one at a time).

#shadowBox {
  background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
  /* Fallback color */
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  /* Black w/opacity/see-through */
  border: 3px solid;
}

.rainbow {
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: underline;
  font-size: 32px;
  font-family: monospace;
  letter-spacing: 5px;
  animation: colorRotate 6s linear 0s infinite;
}

@keyframes colorRotate {
  from {
    color: #6666ff;
  }
  10% {
    color: #0099ff;
  }
  50% {
    color: #00ff00;
  }
  75% {
    color: #ff3399;
  }
  100% {
    color: #6666ff;
  }
}
<div id="shadowBox">

  <h3 class="rainbow">COMING SOON</h3>

</div>

Solution

  • You can achieve this effect by using a moving gradient background, color to transparent, and background clip to text.

    #shadowBox {
    background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
    /* Fallback color */
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    /* Black w/opacity/see-through */
    border: 3px solid;
}

.rainbow {
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: underline;
    font-size: 32px;
    font-family: monospace;
    letter-spacing: 5px;
}
.rainbow_text_animated {
    background: linear-gradient(to right, #6666ff, #0099ff , #00ff00, #ff3399, #6666ff);
    -webkit-background-clip: text;
    background-clip: text;
    color: transparent;
    animation: rainbow_animation 6s ease-in-out infinite;
    background-size: 400% 100%;
}

@keyframes rainbow_animation {
    0%,100% {
        background-position: 0 0;
    }

    50% {
        background-position: 100% 0;
    }
}
    <div id="shadowBox">
    <h3 class="rainbow rainbow_text_animated">COMING SOON</h3>
</div>