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Discover how to maintain smooth animations while using `linear-gradient` in your CSS slideshow. Here’s a guide to fix blinking issues and enhance your visuals with gradients.
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Maintaining Smooth CSS Animation with Linear Gradients in Slideshows

Creating engaging slideshows in web design involves seamlessly transitioning between background images to captivate viewers. However, many developers encounter unexpected difficulties when adding linear-gradient overlays, resulting in animation failures. If you’ve faced this challenge, fear not! In this post, we’ll walk through the issue and provide a clear solution.

Understanding the Problem

You may have a well-functioning slideshow setup that utilizes background images with a smooth fade-in and fade-out effect using CSS animation. For example, your CSS might look something like this:

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This code effectively animates the background images throughout your slideshow. However, when you try to enhance your design by adding a linear-gradient, like this:

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You might notice that the smooth transitions have vanished. Instead of a polished animation, the background abruptly changes without any fade effect — leading to a blink that’s far from visually appealing.

The Solution

Key Concept: Matching Values in Animation

Animations work best when they transition between comparable values. If you mix incompatible units or types, like gradients and images, this can interrupt the smooth flow, leading to the blinking effect you’ve observed. Here’s how to approach this properly:

Avoid Confusion with Animation: Always ensure that the values being animated are of the same type. For instance, using pixels with pixels, not mixing percentages or dimensions that do not correlate.

Step-by-Step Resolution

1. Use a Secondary Background Layer

Instead of having the gradient and images in a single background property which causes interruptions, you should separate the gradient using an additional ::after pseudo-element. Here’s how to do that:

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2. Apply Animation to the Main Background

Now, your .hero class can retain the animation for the background images while the gradient overlays in the ::after pseudo-element. Here's how you keep your initial animations intact:

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By structuring your CSS in this manner, you can ensure that the texture and depth from the linear-gradient don’t interfere with the transitions of your slideshow images.

Conclusion

Incorporating linear-gradient while maintaining smooth CSS animations is not as complicated as it appears. By utilizing a secondary background technique via a pseudo-element, you can create stunning visual effects without sacrificing performance or aesthetics. By following the above steps, your slideshow can capture viewer attention without the jarring interruptions of blinking backgrounds.

Now, go ahead and enhance your web designs with both amazing transitions and beautiful overlays! Happy coding!