Star Wars Text Crawl
Story text scrolls up a tilted plane and shrinks toward a vanishing point, like a space opera's opening crawl. A rotateX plane inside a perspective box, faded out at the far end with a mask.
Also known as: opening crawl css, star wars intro text css, perspective scrolling text.
Episode IV
A NEW RELEASE
It is a period of shipping. Rebel developers, striking from a hidden branch, have won their first victory against the dreaded Legacy Monolith.
During the battle, they stole the plans to the Monolith's ultimate weapon: a build that takes forty minutes.
HTML
<div class="txt-star-wars-text-crawl">
<div class="txt-star-wars-text-crawl-plane">
<div class="txt-star-wars-text-crawl-text">
<p class="txt-star-wars-text-crawl-episode">Episode IV</p>
<p class="txt-star-wars-text-crawl-heading">A NEW RELEASE</p>
<p>It is a period of shipping. Rebel developers, striking from a hidden branch, have won their first victory against the dreaded Legacy Monolith.</p>
<p>During the battle, they stole the plans to the Monolith's ultimate weapon: a build that takes forty minutes.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>CSS
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl {
--c: var(--txt-color, #3b82f6);
font-size: var(--txt-size, 32px);
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
line-height: 1.2;
position: relative;
width: 11em;
height: 5.4em;
overflow: hidden;
perspective: 7em;
perspective-origin: 50% 0;
color: var(--c);
-webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(transparent 5%, #000 60%);
mask-image: linear-gradient(transparent 5%, #000 60%);}
/* the floor the text slides along, tipped back from its bottom edge */
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl-plane {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
bottom: 0;
width: 9em;
height: 12em;
margin-left: -4.5em;
transform-origin: 50% 100%;
transform: rotateX(58deg);
}
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl-text {
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
font-size: 0.55em;
line-height: 1.35;
text-align: justify;
animation: txt-star-wars-text-crawl-roll 15s linear -4s infinite;
}
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl-text p {
margin: 0 0 0.9em;
}
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl-episode,
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl-heading {
text-align: center;
}
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl-heading {
font-size: 1.5em;
letter-spacing: 0.08em;
}
@keyframes txt-star-wars-text-crawl-roll {
from { transform: translateY(0); }
to { transform: translateY(calc(-100% - 10em)); }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.txt-star-wars-text-crawl, .txt-star-wars-text-crawl *, .txt-star-wars-text-crawl::before, .txt-star-wars-text-crawl::after, .txt-star-wars-text-crawl *::before, .txt-star-wars-text-crawl *::after {
animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
}
}Customizing this snippet
- Color: set
--txt-coloron the element or a parent. Currently previewing#3b82f6. - Font size: set
--txt-size. Every other dimension is inem, so the whole thing scales together. Currently previewing40px. - Speed: change the duration on the
transitionoranimationshorthand. Staggered delays are relative, so they keep their rhythm. - Reduced motion: the rule at the end of the CSS turns the motion off for people who asked their OS for less of it. Keep it.